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Dangerous Motherhood - Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain (Paperback, 1st ed. 2004)
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Dangerous Motherhood - Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain (Paperback, 1st ed. 2004)
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Dangerous Motherhood is the first study of the close and complex
relationship between mental disorder and childbirth. Exploring the
relationship between women, their families and their doctors
reveals how explanations for the onset of puerperal insanity were
drawn from a broad set of moral, social and environmental
frameworks, rather than being bound to ideas that women as a whole
were likely to be vulnerable to mental illness. The horror of this
devastating disorder which upturned the household, turned gentle
mothers into disruptive and dangerous mad women, was magnified by
it occurring at a time when it was anticipated that women would be
most happy in the fulfillment of their role as mothers.
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