Women as mothers in pre-industrial England : essays in memory of Dorothy McLaren

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Women as mothers in pre-industrial England : essays in memory of Dorothy McLaren

edited by Valerie Fildes

(The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine)

Routledge, 1990

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Bibliography: p.204-219

Includes index

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Description

Drawing together contributors from a range of disciplines, this work provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to the subject, using an impressive array of evidence. This book should be of interest to advanced students in history of medicine, social history and women's studies.

Table of Contents

1. The construction and experience of maternity in seventeenth-century England Patricia Crawford 2. Embarking on a rough passage: the experience of pregnancy in early modern society Linda A. Pollock 3. The ceremony of childbirth and its interpretation Adrian Wilson 4. Puritan attitudes toward childhood discipline 1560-1634 5. Wet nursing and child care in Aldenham, Hertfordhire 1595-1726: some evidence on the circumstances and effects of seventeenth century child rearing practices Fiona Newell 6. Maternal feelings re-assessed: child abandonment and neglect in London and Westminster 1550-1800 Valerie Fildes 7. Conjugal love and the flight from marriage: poetry as a source for the history of women and the family Mary Prior Bibliography Index.

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