Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009144167/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 43 of
43
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""At the intersections of early modern literature and history, Shakespeare and Women's Studies, Midwiving Subjects explores how Shakespearean drama and contemporary medical, religious and popular texts figured the midwife as a central producer of the body's cultural markers. In addition to attending most Englishwomen's births and testifying to their in extremis confessions about paternity, the midwife allegedly controlled the size of one's tongue and genitals at birth and was obligated to perform virginity exams, impotence tests and emergency baptisms. The signs of purity and masculinity, paternity and salvation were inherently open to interpretation, yet early modern culture authorized midwives to generate and announce them. Midwiving Subjects, then, challenges recent studies that read the midwife as a woman whose power was limited to a marginal and unruly birthroom community and instead uncovers the midwife's foundational role, not only in the rituals of reproduction, but in the process of cultural production itself."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12882561.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""At the intersections of early modern literature and history, Shakespeare and Women's Studies, Midwiving Subjects explores how Shakespearean drama and contemporary medical, religious and popular texts figured the midwife as a central producer of the body's cultural markers. In addition to attending most Englishwomen's births and testifying to their in extremis confessions about paternity, the midwife allegedly controlled the size of one's tongue and genitals at birth and was obligated to perform virginity exams, impotence tests and emergency baptisms. The signs of purity and masculinity, paternity and salvation were inherently open to interpretation, yet early modern culture authorized midwives to generate and announce them. Midwiving Subjects, then, challenges recent studies that read the midwife as a woman whose power was limited to a marginal and unruly birthroom community and instead uncovers the midwife's foundational role, not only in the rituals of reproduction, but in the process of cultural production itself."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-204) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Midwiving Subjects -- 1. Lurking in the Gossip's Bowl: Men's Tales and Women's Words -- 2. "Sometimes the Midwives break it": Pressing Maids and Making Women -- 3. "As God makes, so the Midwife shapes": Crowning Heads and Reforming English Bodies -- 4. Stealing the Seal: Baptizing Women and the Mark of Kingship -- 5. "(Miraculous) Matter": Lucina at Ephesus and the Churching of Women -- Epilogue: Lucina in London.".
- catalog extent "xi, 211 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Midwiving subjects in Shakespeare's England.".
- catalog identifier "0754609383 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Midwiving subjects in Shakespeare's England.".
- catalog isPartOf "Women and gender in the early modern world".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate,".
- catalog relation "Midwiving subjects in Shakespeare's England.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "2003 K-250".
- catalog subject "822.3/3 21".
- catalog subject "Childbirth England History.".
- catalog subject "Childbirth in literature.".
- catalog subject "History, 16th Century England.".
- catalog subject "History, 17th Century England.".
- catalog subject "Medicine in Literature England.".
- catalog subject "Midwifery England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Midwifery England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Midwifery England History.".
- catalog subject "Midwifery in literature.".
- catalog subject "Midwives England.".
- catalog subject "Midwives in literature.".
- catalog subject "Nurse Midwives England History.".
- catalog subject "PR2992.M53 B53 2003".
- catalog subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Characters Midwives.".
- catalog subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Views on midwifery.".
- catalog subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.".
- catalog subject "WQ 11 FE5 B583m 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Midwiving Subjects -- 1. Lurking in the Gossip's Bowl: Men's Tales and Women's Words -- 2. "Sometimes the Midwives break it": Pressing Maids and Making Women -- 3. "As God makes, so the Midwife shapes": Crowning Heads and Reforming English Bodies -- 4. Stealing the Seal: Baptizing Women and the Mark of Kingship -- 5. "(Miraculous) Matter": Lucina at Ephesus and the Churching of Women -- Epilogue: Lucina in London.".
- catalog title "Midwiving subjects in Shakespeare's England / Caroline Bicks.".
- catalog type "text".