This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider
network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with
illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds
through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the 'ceremony
of childbirth', the popular ritual through which women collectively
controlled this, the pivotal event in their lives. Focussing on the
seventeenth century, but ranging from the sixteenth to the
eighteenth century, this study offers a new viewpoint on such
themes as the patriarchal family, the significance of illegitimacy,
and the structuring of gender-relations in the period.
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