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  title info:
    title: Pregnancy, delivery, childbirth
    sub title: a gender and cultural history from antiquity to the test tube in Europe
  title info:
    title: Generare, partorire, nascere. English
  name:
    name part: Filippini, Nadia Maria
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Boscolo, Clelia
    role:
      role term: translator.
  name:
    name part: EBSCOhost
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ita
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource ( xvi, 323 pages) : illustrations.
  table of contents: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Cultural Representations -- 1 Gender Dichotomies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Earth and the Sower -- 3 Man as the "Origin of Generation": Generated by Man, Born by Woman -- 4 Sons and Daughters: Hierarchies in Generation -- 5 Generating with the Body, Generating with the Mind -- 6 Zeus' Cephalic Delivery: Athena's Birth -- 7 Childbirth vs War, Childbirth as War -- 8 Eve's Pains -- 9 Mary's Virgin Delivery -- Part II: Giving Birth and Being Born From Antiquity to the 18th Century -- Foreword -- 2 Pregnancy -- 1 Being Pregnant -- 2 The Foetus: its Development and Ensoulment -- 3 Making a Beautiful Baby: The Power of the Gaze and Cravings -- 4 Precepts, Practices and Prohibitions Between Medicine and Tradition -- 5 Not only Babies: "Monsters" and Moles -- 6 The Fight against Abortion and the Defence of the Venter -- 7 Institutions for Unmarried Mothers ("Fallen Women") -- 3 Childbirth -- 1 A Painful Test, a Risky Journey -- 2 Preparing for the Event -- 3 The Childbirth Scene: Places, People and Practices -- 4 "Natural" Versus "Unnatural" Childbirth: The Doctors' Discourse -- 5 "Sacrificing the Fruit to Save the Tree": The Priority of a Mother's Life -- 6 The "Second Delivery": The Placenta -- 4 Birth and Post-Natal Period -- 1 The Birth Setting -- 2 Breastfeeding and Wet Nurses -- 3 Impurity: A Period of time Between Life and Death -- 4 Beliefs and Rules -- 5 Purification Rituals -- 6 Infanticide and Abandonment -- 5 Social Birth -- 1 Rites of Passage -- 2 In the Ancient World -- 3 In the Christian World -- 4 Baptism Between the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation -- 5 The Dual Death and the Construction of Limbo -- 6 Rituals Which Replaced Baptism.
  table of contents: 7 Post-mortem Caesarean Sections -- 6 The Midwife -- 1 Features and Skills -- 2 The "Midwife-Witch" -- 3 The Control of the Church -- 4 Control and Regulation of Political Institutions -- 5 A Variety of Figures -- Part III: The 18th-Century Juncture -- Foreword -- 7 The Institutionalisation of Midwives -- 1 Childbirth: Public and Political Interests -- 2 Midwives on Trial -- 3 "The Light of Knowledge": The Creation of Midwifery Schools -- 4 A New Model of Midwife -- 5 Qualified Versus Unlicenced Midwives: An Age-Old Competition -- 8 Man-Midwives on the Childbirth Scene -- 1 The Establishment of Man-Midwives -- 2 Forceps and Vectis: The "iron Hands", Symbols of the New midwifery -- 3 Active Versus Waiting Obstetrician: A Conflict of Perspectives and Practices -- 4 European Differences -- 5 Midwives and Man-Midwives: The Issue of Manual Interventions -- 9 Lying-in Hospitals -- 1 Unmarried and Poor Mothers in the Service of Training -- 2 New Midwifery Rituals and Practices -- 3 Childbed Fever and Semmelweis's 'Indecent' Discovery -- 4 Puerperal Insanity and Infanticide: New Medical, Legal and Social Perspectives -- 10 The "Foetus-as-Citizen" -- 1 New Theories About Generation -- 2 The Birth of Embryology and the Personification of the Foetus -- 3 Theologian F. E. Cangiamila and the Campaign for Post-Mortem Caesarean Sections -- 4 The Protection of "Unborn Citizens" -- 5 Caesarean Sections on Living Women -- 6 Saving the Mother or the Child? -- 7 Defending (the Foetus') Life: The Verdict of the Holy Office -- 8 Breastfeeding and New Forms of Childcare -- 9 Reforms and Laws in Defence of Newborns -- Part IV: The Contemporary Age -- 11 The Many Revolutions of the 20th Century -- 1 Maternity Protection -- 2 Maternity and Nationalism: The Italian Case -- 3 Eugenics, Sterilisation and Forced Abortions -- 4 The Catholic Church and the Protestant Churches.
  table of contents: 5 The Delocalisation of Childbirth to Hospitals -- 6 "My Womb is Mine": Contraception and Abortion in the Feminist Movement -- 7 "Of Woman Born": a New Perspective on Childbirth -- 8 Pain-Free Childbirth: Chloroform, Epidural Anaesthesia and Psycho-Prophylaxis -- 9 "Let's Take Childbirth Back!" -- 10 Revealing the Secrets of the Womb: Ultrasound scans -- 11 The New Frontier of Artificial Insemination -- 12 Conclusions: At the Dawn of the Third Millennium -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Nadia Maria Filippini ; translated by Clelia Boscolo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Nadia Maria Filippini was Lecturer in Women's History in the Department of Humanities at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She obtained her PhD in history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her research concerns the history of women and the history of mentalities. She has published books, essays and articles, in Italian and other languages, on topics such as the history of Caesarean sections ("extraordinary birth"), childbirth and the body, as well as the history of medicine, and women's social history. She is a founding member of the Società Italiana delle Storiche (Italian Society of Women Historians).
  subject:
    topic: Childbirth
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Obstetrics
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Motherhood
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Pregnancy
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Parturition
  subject:
    topic: Pregnancy
  subject:
    topic: History of Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Obstétrique
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Maternité
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Grossesse
  subject:
    topic: Médecine
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: pregnancy
  subject:
    topic: history of medicine
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / General
  subject:
    topic: Pregnancy
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Childbirth
  subject:
    topic: Motherhood
  subject:
    topic: Obstetrics
  classification: RG511 .F4513 2021
  classification: 618.2
  classification: WQ 300
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    title info:
      title: Pregnancy, delivery, childbirth
    name:
      name part: Filippini, Nadia Maria.
    origin info:
      publisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
    identifier: (DLC) 2020010004
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200302
    record change date: 20260206153121.1
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng