Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England by Adrian Wilson

Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England

Adrian Wilson

270 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

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This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to ...

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