"By uncovering long-lost tales and artefacts about sexuality, birth, and popular culture, Lisa Forman Cody argues that Enlightenment Britons understood themselves and their relationship to others through their experiences and beliefs about the reproductive body. Birthing the Nat…
Birthing the Nation analyses two intertwined narratives that shaped eighteenth-century British life: the development of the modern British state, and the emergence of the man-midwife as the pre-eminent authority over sex and childbirth. By exploring peculiar episodes in the hist…
Proefschrift culturele antropologie, Derde Wereld Centrum, KUN. Studie naar de sociaal-culturele achtergrond van bepaalde reproductieve gedragsvormen en het geboorteproces bij de Andes-bevolking in Peru. De nadruk ligt op de culturele identiteit en kennis van de betrokken groepe…