Nadia Filippini

Pregnancy, Delivery, Childbirth (eBook, ePUB)

A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book reconstructs the history of conception, pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the Twentieth century, focusing on its most significant turning points. It explores a history, that far from being linear, progressive or homogeneous, is characterised by significant continuities as well as transformations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429560477
• Artikelnr.: 59775715

Autorenporträt

Nadia Maria Filippini was Lecturer in Women's History in the Department of Humanities at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She obtained her PhD in history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her research concerns the history of women and the history of mentalities. She has published books, essays and articles, in Italian and other languages, on topics such as the history of Caesarean sections ("extraordinary birth"), childbirth and the body, as well as the history of medicine, and women's social history. She is a founding member of the Società Italiana delle Storiche (Italian Society of Women Historians).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Cultural representations
1. Gender dichotomies
Part II: Giving birth and being born from antiquity to the 18th century
2. Pregnancy
3. Childbirth
4. Birth and post-natal period
5. Social birth
6. The midwife
Part III: The 18th-century juncture
7. The institutionalisation of midwives
8. Man-midwives on the childbirth scene
9. Lying-in hospitals
10. The "foetus-as-citizen"
Part IV: The contemporary age
11. The many revolutions of the 20th century
Bibliography
Index

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Introduction; Part I: Cultural representations; 1. Gender dichotomies; Part II: Giving birth and being born from antiquity to the 18th century; 2. Pregnancy; 3. Childbirth; 4. Birth and post-natal period; 5. Social birth; 6. The midwife; Part III: The 18th-century juncture; 7. The institutionalisation of midwives; 8. Man-midwives on the childbirth scene; 9. Lying-in hospitals; 10. The "foetus-as-citizen"; Part IV: The contemporary age; 11. The many revolutions of the 20th century; Bibliography; Index

Rezensionen

'Nadia Maria Filippini is a highly regarded social historian with a prolific scholarship centred on women's reproductive history. With this volume, beautifully translated by Clelia Boscolo, English readers can access Filippini's groundbreaking long durée approach to childbirth history, revealing patterns that evolved over 25 centuries.'

Costanza Gislon Dopfel, Social History of Medicine, UK

"This is a work of considerable scholarship. (...) Although I can hear the loud denials from here, I believe that in Britain we focus almost entirely on the practicalities of childbirth in the past, with limited interest in the contemporary thought and culture contributing to that care: this book takes a very different approach, and I thoroughly recommend it."

Alison Nuttall, De Partu: History of Midwifery and Childbirth Research Group