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Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy - Contested Deliveries (Paperback)
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Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy - Contested Deliveries (Paperback)
Series: The History of Medicine in Context
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Authority, 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.
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