Reproductive Unconscious in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
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Anchoritic Practice
ancrene
Author_Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth
Bear Children
birth
Birth Communities
Birth Ritual
Bodily Sickness
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childbirth
childbirth metaphors in English literature
Childbirth Ritual
Christ Child
communities
Edward III
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Female Communities
Foolish Virgins
gynecological history
Gynecological Manuals
Gynecological Texts
hali
Hali Meidenhad
Hir Selfe
Holy Man
Julian's Text
kempe
margery
Margery's Life
Mary's Birth
Maternal Mortality Rates
maternity symbolism
medieval gender studies
meidenhad
midwifery practices
Procreative Body
rituals
Rose Garden
Trotula Texts
virginity ideology
wisse
women's devotional literature
Women's Spiritual Practices
Worshipful Wives
Wyth Hir
Product details
- ISBN 9780415941525
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Drawing together social and medical history and literary studies, The Reproductive Unconscious in Late Medieval and Early Modern England studies the social practices and metaphorical representations of childbirth in medieval and early modern texts and argues for the existence of a reproductive unconscious. Discussing midwifery treatises, obstetrical and gynecological manuals, and devotional texts written for or by women, the author illustrates the ways in which medieval and early modern men and women negotiated a conflict between the ideological and material need of the culture for them to procreate, and an ideological injunction that they remain virginal and non-procreative.
