The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770 9780429663352, 0429663358

The Making of England 9781784530051

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Lying-in: History of Childbirth in America: A History of Childbirth in America [Expanded] 0300040873, 9780300040876

This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gra

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The Making of Victorian England 9780415065917

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Making Magic in Elizabethan England 9780271083681

This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan Eng

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Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England: Years in the making 9781526129888

Seeking to better understand what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people th

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Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England 9780812298024

In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan charts the development of printed poetry in early modern England, showing how m

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The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England 9780300134599

Toward the end of the eighteenth century, a radical change occurred in notions of self and personal identity. This was a

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Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth 9781477314135

As Puerto Rico rapidly industrialized from the late 1940s until the 1970s, the social, political, and economic landscape

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Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France 0754636194, 9780754636199

How could men appear to be trustworthy birth assistants at a time when women were associated with a bodily comprehension

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Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time 9780857455420

All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physio

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