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- catalog abstract ""Eve's Herbs explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times?"--BOOK JACKET. "Beginning with the testimony of a young woman brought before the Inquisition in France in 1320, Riddle asks what women knew about regulating fertility with herbs and shows how the new intellectual, religious, and legal climate of the early modern period tended to cast suspicion on women who employed "secret knowledge" to terminate or prevent pregnancy. Knowledge of the menstrual-regulating qualities of rue, pennyroyal, and other herbs was widespread through succeeding centuries among herbalists, apothecaries, doctors, and laywomen themselves, even as theologians and legal scholars began advancing the idea that the fetus was fully human from the moment of conception."--BOOK JACKET. "Drawing on previously unavailable material, Riddle reaches a startling conclusion: while it did not persist in a form that was available to most women, ancient knowledge about herbs was not lost in modern times but survived in coded form. Persecuted as "witchcraft" in centuries past and prosecuted as a crime in our own time, the control of fertility by "Eve's herbs" has been practiced by women since ancient times."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10149700.
- catalog contributor b10149701.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""Eve's Herbs explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times?"--BOOK JACKET. "Beginning with the testimony of a young woman brought before the Inquisition in France in 1320, Riddle asks what women knew about regulating fertility with herbs and shows how the new intellectual, religious, and legal climate of the early modern period tended to cast suspicion on women who employed "secret knowledge" to terminate or prevent pregnancy. Knowledge of the menstrual-regulating qualities of rue, pennyroyal, and other herbs was widespread through succeeding centuries among herbalists, apothecaries, doctors, and laywomen themselves, even as theologians and legal scholars began advancing the idea that the fetus was fully human from the moment of conception."--BOOK JACKET. "Drawing on previously unavailable material, Riddle reaches a startling conclusion: while it did not persist in a form that was available to most women, ancient knowledge about herbs was not lost in modern times but survived in coded form. Persecuted as "witchcraft" in centuries past and prosecuted as a crime in our own time, the control of fertility by "Eve's herbs" has been practiced by women since ancient times."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-329) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Roe v. Wade -- 1. A Woman's Secret -- 2. The Herbs Known to the Ancients -- 3. Ancient and Medieval Beliefs -- 4. From Womancraft to Witchcraft, 1200-1500 -- 5. Witches and Apothecaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 6. The Broken Chain of Knowledge -- 7. The Womb as Public Territory -- 8. Eve's Herbs in Modern America.".
- catalog extent "341 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Eve's herbs.".
- catalog identifier "067427024X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Eve's herbs.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Eve's herbs.".
- catalog subject "613.9/4 21".
- catalog subject "Abortion Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "Abortion, Induced history.".
- catalog subject "Birth control Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "Contraceptive Agents history.".
- catalog subject "Herbal abortifacients History.".
- catalog subject "Herbal contraceptives History.".
- catalog subject "Public Opinion.".
- catalog subject "QV 177 R543e 1977".
- catalog subject "RG137.45 .R53 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Roe v. Wade -- 1. A Woman's Secret -- 2. The Herbs Known to the Ancients -- 3. Ancient and Medieval Beliefs -- 4. From Womancraft to Witchcraft, 1200-1500 -- 5. Witches and Apothecaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 6. The Broken Chain of Knowledge -- 7. The Womb as Public Territory -- 8. Eve's Herbs in Modern America.".
- catalog title "Eve's herbs : a history of contraception and abortion in the West / John M. Riddle.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".