Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

by Mary E. Fissell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199202702
• ISBN13: 9780199202706
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"