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.
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.
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
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
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