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Papa Don't Preach: Bibliography
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Magic, superstition, and pregnancy in early modern England. Ttp:/ www.bronwenwilson.ca/. Crawford, Julie. Monstrous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. . Crawford, Patricia, Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England(Women and Men in History), Harlow: Pearson Education, 2004. . Forbes, Thomas Rogers. The Midwife and the Witch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Salmon, Marylynn. . Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Papa Don't Preach: Monstrous births, Babies, and Mothers
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Magic, superstition, and pregnancy in early modern England. Monstrous births, Babies, and Mothers. In one example from 1566, a rich woman, though she was Christian, gave birth to a child with “ruffles” of skin around its neck. In the telling of the story, the author is quick to indicate that ruffles on the child’s neck indicted the excessive pride in clothing of the mother (50). As Michel Foucault would say, the punishment here is transparent to the crime. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Papa Don't Preach: Breast-feeding, breast-milk, Witches and Magic
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Magic, superstition, and pregnancy in early modern England. Breast-feeding, breast-milk, Witches and Magic. Act in early modern England because it defied humoral theory about female bodies, invoked selflessness and sacrifice while also retaining the power to transform humors and sustain life. Salmon, Marylynn. . The Cultural Significance of Breastfeeding and Infant Care in Early Modern England and America. 160;Journal of Social History 28.2 (1994), pp. 247-269. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Papa Don't Preach: Superstition, pregnancy, and midwives
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Magic, superstition, and pregnancy in early modern England. Superstition, pregnancy, and midwives. 160; . The midwife was a loose canon, so to speak, because her authority on female anatomy rivaled the physicians (who did not have ready access to the female body because of major religious and social taboos on female nudity), she had the possibility of economic independence, and part of her profession involved “touching a woman’s ‘secrets’” (Crawford xi). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Papa Don't Preach: 05/01/2008 - 06/01/2008
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Magic, superstition, and pregnancy in early modern England. Ttp:/ www.bronwenwilson.ca/. Crawford, Julie. Monstrous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. . Crawford, Patricia, Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England(Women and Men in History), Harlow: Pearson Education, 2004. . Forbes, Thomas Rogers. The Midwife and the Witch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Salmon, Marylynn. . 160; . The midwife was a loose...
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Papa Don't Preach: Introduction
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Magic, superstition, and pregnancy in early modern England. 160; I discuss monstrous births and the mother-as-monster, the power of breast-milk and breast-feeding, and the magic surrounding midwives in early modern England. . Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Superstition, pregnancy, and midwives. Breast-feeding, breast-milk, Witches and Magic. Monstrous births, Babies, and Mothers. View my complete profile. Tamburlaine the Great Renaissance Blog! Stanford Website: Female Anatomy.
