Vernacular Bodies

Vernacular Bodies
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Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9780199269884
ISBN-13 : 0199269882
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Book Synopsis Vernacular Bodies by : Mary Elizabeth Fissell

Download or read book Vernacular Bodies written by Mary Elizabeth Fissell and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources to recover how ordinary men and women understood the process of reproduction. Because the human body was often used as a metaphor for social relations, the events of high politics reshaped popular ideas about conception and pregnancy.


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