Hanson A Cultural History of Pregnancy

Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-230-51054-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Hanson explores the different ways in which pregnancy has been constructed and interpreted in Britain over the last 250 years. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including obstetric texts, pregnancy advice books, literary texts, popular fiction and visual images, she analyzes changing attitudes to key issues such as the relative rights of mother and foetus and the degree to which medical intervention is acceptable in pregnancy. Hanson also considers the effects of medical and social changes on the subjective experience of pregnancy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hanson, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Advice to the Fair Sex Moral Physiology Mothering the Race Mass Production Reproductive Futures Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

CLARE HANSON is Professor of English at Loughborough University. She has published widely on women's writing and on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and her books include (co-author), and most recently a study of the woman's novel, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).