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Birthing bodies in early modern France : stories of gender and reproduction /

"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...

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Основен автор: Read, Kirk D.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011.
Серия: Women and gender in the early modern world.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=398095
Подобни документи: Print version:: Birthing bodies in early modern France.
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  • Assimilation with a vengeance: maternity without women in male French Renaissance lyric
  • Unstable bodies: birthing monstrosities in early modern France
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