Women As Mothers in Pre-Industrial England

Informationen zum Autor Valerie A. Fildes (Edited by) Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1990, this book met the rising interest in the subject of women in pre-industrial England, bringing together a group of scholars with diverse and wide-ranging interests; experts in social and medical history, demography, women’s studies, and the history of the family, whose work would not normally appear in one volume. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Construction and Experience of Maternity in Seventeenth-century England 2. Embarking on a Rough Passage: the Experience of Pregnancy in Early-modern Society 3. The Ceremony of Childbirth and its Interpretation 4. Puritan Attitudes Towards Childhood Discipline, 1560-1634 5. Wet Nursing and Child Care in Aldenham, Hertfordshire, 1595-1726 6. Maternal Feelings Reassessed: Child Abandonment and Neglect in London and Westminster, 1550-1800 7. Conjugal Love and the Flight from Marriage: Poetry as a Source for the History of Women and the Family

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• Authors: Valerie Fildes
• Assisted by: Valerie Fildes (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2012
• EAN: 9780415633376
• ISBN: 978-0-415-63337-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Sociology, European History, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, History of Medicine, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Gender studies: women and girls, History and Archaeology