Hera Cook traces the path of sexuality in England, and shows how its route was determined by the gradual exertion of control over fertility.
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"Around 1800 birth rates reached historical heights. Using a combination of demographic and qualitative sources, Dr. Cook examines the connection between the struggle to lower fertility and the increasing repression of sexuality throughout the nineteenth century. Contraception b…
Hera Cook traces the path of sexuality in England, and shows how its route was determined by the gradual exertion of control over fertility.
Auteur beschrijft hoe vrouwen sinds de Egyptische oudheid tot de vijftiende eeuw vertrouwden op een uitgebreide pharmacopeia aan abortusopwekkende kruiden en anticonceptiva om vruchtbaarheid te reguleren. Hij vraagt zich af hoe deze kennis, die in vroegere tijden zo ruim voorhan…
In Contraception And Abortion From The Ancient World To The Renaissance, Riddle showed that women in ancient times relied on herbs to regulate fertility. In this volume, he shows that this ancient knowledge was not lost, but survived in coded form.
This volume provides an investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. Using reproduction as an entry point the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation.