Pregnancy, delivery, childbirth : a gender and cultural history from antiquity to the test tube in Europe /
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2021.
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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.
- 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.
- 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.