Kirk D Read

Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France

Stories of Gender and Reproduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered control of social and political institutions, acquired much of their descriptive power from contemporaneous medical and scientific discourse. Read brings together literary and medical texts that represent a range of views, from lyric poets, satirists and polemicists, to midwives and surgeons, all of whom explore the popular sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century narratives of birth in France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780754666325
• ISBN-10: 0754666328
• Artikelnr.: 44971571

Autorenporträt

Kirk D. Read is an Associate Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bates College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Of Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France
Chapter 1 Spying at the Lying-In: Les Caquets de l'accouchée as Birthing Event
Chapter 2 Staging the Competent Midwife: The Royal Birth Stories of François Rabelais and Louise Boursier
Chapter 3 Touching and Telling: Gendered Variations on a Gynecological Theme
Chapter 4 Assimilation with a Vengeance: Maternity without Women in Male French Renaissance Lyric
Chapter 5 Unstable Bodies: Birthing Monstrosities in Early Modern France
Chapter 6 Strange Fellows in Bed: Exotic Men's Postpartum Blues
Chapter 7 Postpartum