Angus Mclaren

Reproductive Rituals (eBook, PDF)

The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. This book provides a detailed understanding of historical attitudes towards conception family planning in pre-industrial England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000026740
• Artikelnr.: 58497412

Autorenporträt

Angus McLaren

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: History and Cultural Anthropology 1. The
Pleasures of Procreation: Traditional and Biomedical Theories of Conception
2. 'To Remedy Barrenness and to Promote the Faculty of Generation':
Promoting Fertility, 1500-1800 3. 'Excellent Recipes to Keep from Bearing
Children': Restricting Fertility, 1500-1800 4. 'All Manner of Art, to the
Help of Drugs and Physicians': Abortion as Birth Control 5. 'Converting
this Measure of Security into a Crime': The Early Nineteenth-Century
Abortion Laws Conclusion Notes Index