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100	1		_aKosmin, Jennifer F., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAuthority, gender, and midwifery in early modern Italy : _bcontested deliveries / _cJennifer F. Kosmin.
264		1	_aAbingdon, Oxon ; _aNew York, NY : _bRoutledge, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aThe history of medicine in context
520			_aAuthority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy: Contested Deliveries explores attempts by church, state, and medical authorities to regulate and professionalize the practice of midwifery in Italy from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. Medical writers in this period devoted countless pages to investigating the secrets of women's sexuality and the processes of generation. By the eighteenth century, male practitioners in Britain and France were even successfully advancing careers as male midwives. Yet, female midwives continued to manage the vast majority of all early modern births. An examination of developments in Italy, where male practitioners never made successful inroads into childbirth, brings into focus the complex social, religious, and political contexts that shaped the management of reproduction in early modern Europe. Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy argues that new institutional spaces to care for pregnant women and educate midwives in Italy during the eighteenth century were not strictly medical developments but rather socio-political responses both to long standing concerns about honor, shame, and illegitimacy, and contemporary unease about population growth and productivity. In so doing, this book complicates our understanding of such sites, situating them within a longer genealogy of institutional spaces in Italy aimed at regulating sexual morality and protecting female honor. It will be of interest to scholars of the history of medicine, religious history, social history, and Early Modern Italy.
588			_aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650		0	_aMidwifery _zItaly _xHistory.
650		0	_aMidwives _zItaly _xHistory.
650		0	_aChildbirth _xReligious aspects.
650		0	_aChildbirth _xPolitical aspects _zItaly _xHistory.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Europe / Italy _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Modern / 18th Century _2bisacsh
856	4	0	_3Taylor & Francis _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003056072
856	4	2	_3OCLC metadata license agreement _uhttp://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
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