Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France

by Holly Tucker

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Pregnant Fictions explores the complex role of pregnancy in early-modern tale-telling and considers how stories of childbirth were used to rethink gendered "truths" at a key moment in the history of ideas.

How male medical authorities and female literary authors struggled to describe the inner workings of the unseen--and competed to shape public understanding of it--is the focus of this engaging work by Holly Tucker. In illuminating...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0814330428

ISBN13:9780814330425

Release Date:April 2003

Publisher:Wayne State University Press

Length:213 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.5" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Health Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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