TY  - BOOK
AU  - Filippini,Nadia Maria
AU  - Boscolo,Clelia
TI  - Pregnancy, delivery, childbirth: a gender and cultural history from antiquity to the test tube in Europe 
SN  - 9780367211080
AV  - RG511 .F4513 2020
U1  - 618.2 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Childbirth
KW  - History
KW  - Obstetrics
KW  - Motherhood
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cultural representations -- Giving birth and being born from antiquity to the 18th century -- The 18th -century juncture -- The contemporary age.
N2  - "This book reconstructs the history of conception, pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the Twentieth century, focusing on its most significant turning points: the emergence of a medical-scientific approach to delivery in Ancient Greece, the impact of Christianity, the appearance of the man-midwife in the Eighteenth century, the medicalisation of childbirth, and, finally, the revolution of reproductive technologies. The book explores a history, that far from being linear, progressive or homogeneous, is characterised by significant continuities as well as transformations. The ways in which a woman gives birth and lives her pregnancy and the postpartum period are the result of a complex series of factors. The book therefore places these events in their wider cultural, social and religious contexts, which influenced the forms taken by rituals and therapeutic practices, religious and civil prescription and the regulation of the female body. The investigation of this complex experience represents a crucial contribution to cultural, social and gender history, as well as an indispensable tool for understanding today's reality. It will be of great use to undergraduate students studying the history of childbirth, the history of medicine, the history of the body, as well as women's and gender history more broadly"--
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