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Pregnant Fictions - Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early Modern France (Hardcover)
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Pregnant Fictions - Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early Modern France (Hardcover)
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Pregnant Fictions explores the complex role of pregnancy in early
modern tale-telling and considers how stories of childbirth were
used to rethink gendered "truths" at a key moment in the history of
ideas. How male medical authorities and female literary authors
struggled to describe the inner workings of the unseen--and
competed to shape public understanding of it--is the focus of this
engaging work by Holly Tucker. In illuminating the gender politics
underlying dramatic changes in reproductive theory and practice,
Tucker shows just how tenuous the boundaries of scientific "fact"
and marvelous fictions were in early modern France. On the literary
front, Tucker argues, women used the fairy tale to rethink the
biology of childbirth and the sociopolitical uses to which it had
been put. She shows that in references to midwives, infertility,
sex selection, and embryological theories, fairy-tale writers
experimented with alternative ways of understanding pregnancy. In
so doing they suggested new ways in which to envision women,
knowledge, and power in both the public and the private spheres.
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