Horrors of the Half-Known Life

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781138155091
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Dec 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Now a classic in the field, The Horrors of the Half-KnownLife is an important foundational text in the construction of masculinity, female identity, and the history of midwivery.

G. J. Barker-Benfield is Professor of History and Women's Studies at SUNY-Albany. He is the coeditor with Catherine Clinton of Portraits of American Women and author of TheCulture of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Sexand Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain.