Understandings of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

This multi-disciplinary collection brings together work by scholars from Britain, America and Canada on the popular, individual and institutional histories of pregnancy. It follows the procedure of reproduction from conception and birth control, to birth and parenthood. The contributors check out numerous crucial styles: stories of pregnancy and birth, the patient-consumer, and literary representations of childbearing. This book checks out how these concerns have been constructed, represented and experienced in a variety of geographical areas from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Crossing the limit between the pre-modern and contemporary worlds, the chapters reveal the connections, resemblances and distinctions in comprehending a process that is frequently, in the popular mind-set, considered to be basic and unchanging.

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