Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons
Author:   Dr. Lisa Forman Cody
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199268641


Pages:   376
Publication Date:   03 February 2005
Format:   Hardback
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Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons


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Author:   Dr. Lisa Forman Cody
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.789kg
ISBN:  

9780199268641


ISBN 10:   0199268649
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   03 February 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Mothers, Midwives, and Mysteries; 3. Abortions, Witches, and Catholics: Reproduction and Revolution; 4. 'Is not your Lordship with child too?': Pregnant Fathers and Fathers of Science; 5. Imagining Mothers; 6. Breeding Scottish Obstetrics in Doctor Smellie's London; 7. Revolutionary Bodies in the Britain of George III; 8. Sex, Science, and Race; 9. The State Takes Charge: Conceived, Consummated, and Counted; 10. Epilogue

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Cody's most important achievement is to show that birth is a tool for historical analysis, a tool which brings to light struggles over issues as key as gender relations, national identity, racism and the growth of the modern state. Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Book Prize Committee Cody straddles some of the most significant and distinctive themes of the long eighteenth century ... [she] teases out a novel interpretation of a well-rehearsed medical development, and presents it in a way which cannot help but have impact on the reader. Alysa Levene, Reviews in History


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