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Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

By: Mary Elizabeth Fissell,Mary E. Fissell

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Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

By: Mary Elizabeth Fissell,Mary E. Fissell

In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown out these voices. This book argues that changes in the relationship between rich and poor underlay this rise in medicine's authority.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521526930

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9780521526937

Vernacular Bodies

The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

By: Mary Elizabeth Fissell

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The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

By: Mary Elizabeth Fissell

Making babies was a mysterious process in seventeenth-century England. Fissell uses popular sources - songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to recover how ordinary men and women understood the processes of reproduction. Because the human body was so often used as a metaphor for social relations, the grand events of high politics such as the English Civil War reshaped popular ideas about conception and pregnancy. This book is the first account of ordinary people's ideas about reproduction, and offers a new way to understand how common folk experienced the sweeping political changes that characterized early modern England.

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0199269882

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Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

By: Mary Floyd-Wilson

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Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

By: Mary Floyd-Wilson

Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. In this groundbreaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores these beliefs in relation to women and scientific knowledge, arguing that the early modern English understood their emotions and behavior to be influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies in the natural world. Focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, All's Well That Ends Well, The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi, she demonstrates how these plays stage questions about whether women have privileged access to nature's secrets and whether their bodies possess hidden occult qualities. Discussing the relationship between scientific discourse and the occult, she goes on to argue that as experiential evidence gained scientific ground, women's presumed intimacy with nature's secrets was either diminished or demonized.

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249

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Cambridge University Press

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1107276845

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9781107276840

Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature

By: Mary Beth Rose

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Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature

By: Mary Beth Rose

This book explores the inconsistent literary representations of motherhood in diverse texts ranging from the fourth to the twentieth centuries. Mary Beth Rose unearths plots startling in their frequency and redundancy that struggle to accommodate —or to obliterate—the complex assertions of maternal authority as it challenges traditional family and social structures. The analysis engages two mother plots: the dead mother plot, in which the mother is dying or dead; and the living mother plot, in which the mother is alive and through her very presence in the text, puts often unbearable pressure on the mechanics of the plot. These plots reappear and are transformed by authors as diverse in chronology and use of literary form as Augustine, Shakespeare, Milton, Oscar Wilde, and Tony Kushner. The book argues that, insofar as women become the second sex, it is not because they are females per se but because they are mothers; at the same time the analysis probes the transformative political and social potential of motherhood as it appears in contemporary texts like Angels in America.

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198

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Springer

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3319404547

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Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

By: Mary Lindemann

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Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

By: Mary Lindemann

A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.

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315

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0521425921

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9780521425926

Vernacular Bodies

The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

By: Mary Elizabeth Fissell

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The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

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Vernacular Bodies

The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

By: Mary E. Fissell

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The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

By: Mary E. Fissell

Making babies was a mysterious process in early modern England. Mary Fissell employs a wealth of popular sources - ballads, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, Prayer Books, popular medical manuals - to produce the first account of women's reproductive bodies in early-modern cheap print. Since little was certain about the mysteries of reproduction, the topic lent itself to a rich array of theories. The insides of women's reproductive bodies provided a kind of open interpretive space, a place where many different models of reproductive processes might be plausible. These models were profoundly shaped by cultural concerns; they afforded many ways to discuss and make sense of social, political, and economic changes such as the Protestant Reformation and the Civil War. They gave ordinary people ways of thinking about the changing relations between men and women that characterized these larger social shifts. Fissell offers a new way to think about the history of the body by focusing on women's bodies, showing how ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth were also ways of talking about gender relations and thus all relations of power. Where other histories of the body have focused on learned texts and male bodies, this study looks at the small books and pamphlets that ordinary people read and listened to - and provides new ways to understand how such people experienced political conflicts and social change.

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OUP Oxford

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0191533564

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Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

By: Mary Elizabeth Fissell,Mary E. Fissell

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Book's by Mary Elizabeth Fissell

Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

Vernacular Bodies

Vernacular Bodies

Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature

Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

Vernacular Bodies

Vernacular Bodies

Vernacular Bodies

Vernacular Bodies

Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

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