Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England

by Adrian Wilson

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This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the 'ceremony of childbirth', the popular ritual through which women collectively controlled this, the pivotal event in their lives. Focussing on the seventeenth century, but ranging from the sixteenth to...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1138250597

ISBN13:9781138250598

Release Date:September 2016

Publisher:Routledge

Length:270 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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