Research Catalog

Title

Blood, bodies, and families in early modern England / Patricia Crawford.

Author

Crawford, Patricia (Patricia M.)

Publication

Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson/Longman, 2004.

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Details

Description

ix, 251 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This text gives readers an overview of how feminist historians have been interpreting the history of the family, ever since Laurence Stone's seminal work : Family, sex, and marriage in England (1977). The text is divided into three parts on the following themes: bodies and reproduction; maternity from a feminist perspective; and family relationships.

Series Statement

Women and men in history

Uniform Title

Women and men in history

Subject

• 1500-1699
• History, 17th Century
• History, 16th Century
• Gender Identity
• Attitude to Health
• Family
• Families > England > History > 16th century
• Families > England > History > 17th century
• Sex role > England > History
• Motherhood > England > History
• Paternity > England > History
• Blood > Social aspects
• Human body > Social aspects
• Familierelaties
• Seksualiteit
• England

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-244) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Attitudes to menstruation in seventeenth-century England (App. "Attitudes to pregnancy, from a woman's spiritual diary, 1687-8) -- Sexual knowledge in England, 1500-1750 -- The construction and experience of maternity in seventeenth-century England -- Blood and paternity -- "The sucking child": adult attitudes to child care in the first year of life in seventeenth-century England -- Katharine and Philip Henry and their children: a case study in family ideology -- Sibling relationships -- Further reading --Index.

ISBN

• 0582405130
• 9780582405134

LCCN

^^2004556548

OCLC

• 57626345
• SCSB-12208226

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library