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Women writing childbirth : modern discourses of motherhood
- Title
- Women writing childbirth : modern discourses of motherhood / Tess Cosslett.
- Author
- Cosslett, Tess.
- Publication
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, ©1994.
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Details
- Description
- 184 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- In this work, the author's detailed readings of birth stories - both literary and medical - reveal deeply embedded assumptions about how women are viewed and view themselves. The current debates about "natural" childbirth are examined alongside key literary works by well-known writers.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1945-1992
- English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Mother and child > Literary collections
- Childbirth > Literary collections
- Motherhood > Literary collections
- Mother and child in literature
- Childbirth in literature
- Motherhood in literature
- Labor (Obstetrics)
- Mother and child
- Labor, Obstetric
- Literature, Modern
- Mother-Child Relations
- Childbirth
- Childbirth in literature
- English literature
- English literature > Women authors
- Mother and child
- Mother and child in literature
- Motherhood
- Motherhood in literature
- Women and literature
- Englisch
- Frauenliteratur
- Geburt Motiv
- Geschichte
- Sanfte Geburt
- English literature > Women authors > History and criticism. > 20th century
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work
- Literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Literary collections
- Literature.
- Littérature.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-178) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Natural childbirth and the 'primitive woman' -- 2. Institutions, machines and 'male' medicine -- 3. Other women: mothers and others, other mothers, and old wives -- 4. Subjectivities: two in one, one becomes two.
- ISBN
- 0719043239
- 9780719043239
- 0719043247
- 9780719043246
- LCCN
- 93045572
- OCLC
- ocm29549143
- 29549143
- SCSB-14512954
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library