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- catalog abstract ""How male medical authorities and female literary authors struggled to describe the inner workings of the unseen - and competed to shape public understanding of it - is the focus of this engaging work by Holly Tucker. In illuminating the gender politics underlying dramatic changes in reproductive theory and practice, Tucker shows just how tenuous the boundaries of scientific "fact" and marvelous fictions were in early modern France." "On the literary front, Tucker argues, women used the fairy tale to rethink the biology of childbirth and the sociopolitical uses to which it had been put. She shows that in references to midwives, infertility, sex selection, and embryological theories, fairy-tale writers experimented with alternative ways of understanding pregnancy. In so doing they suggested new ways in which to envision women, knowledge, and power in both the public and the private spheres."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12840958.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""How male medical authorities and female literary authors struggled to describe the inner workings of the unseen - and competed to shape public understanding of it - is the focus of this engaging work by Holly Tucker. In illuminating the gender politics underlying dramatic changes in reproductive theory and practice, Tucker shows just how tenuous the boundaries of scientific "fact" and marvelous fictions were in early modern France."".
- catalog description ""On the literary front, Tucker argues, women used the fairy tale to rethink the biology of childbirth and the sociopolitical uses to which it had been put. She shows that in references to midwives, infertility, sex selection, and embryological theories, fairy-tale writers experimented with alternative ways of understanding pregnancy. In so doing they suggested new ways in which to envision women, knowledge, and power in both the public and the private spheres."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Embarkment -- Uterine legends -- Fairy tales and the facts of life -- Fairies and midwives -- It's a girl! -- Like mother, like daughter -- The chicken and the egg -- Mal de mère.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-199) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 213 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0814330428 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Detroit : Wayne State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog subject "2004 A-648".
- catalog subject "398/.354/0944 21".
- catalog subject "Childbirth Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Fairy tales France History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Folklore France.".
- catalog subject "French literature 17th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "French literature 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "GR161 .T83 2003".
- catalog subject "Literature, Modern France.".
- catalog subject "Parturition France.".
- catalog subject "Pregnancy Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Pregnancy France.".
- catalog subject "Pregnancy in literature.".
- catalog subject "WZ 309 T892p 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Embarkment -- Uterine legends -- Fairy tales and the facts of life -- Fairies and midwives -- It's a girl! -- Like mother, like daughter -- The chicken and the egg -- Mal de mère.".
- catalog title "Pregnant fictions : childbirth and the fairy tale in early-modern France / Holly Tucker.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "Folklore. fast".
- catalog type "text".