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Birth Figures - Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body (Hardcover)
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Birth Figures - Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body (Hardcover)
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The first full study of "birth figures" and their place in early
modern knowledge-making. Birth figures are printed images of the
pregnant womb, always shown in series, that depict the variety of
ways in which a fetus can present for birth. Historian Rebecca
Whiteley coined the term and here offers the first systematic
analysis of the images' creation, use, and impact. Whiteley reveals
their origins in ancient medicine and explores their inclusion in
many medieval gynecological manuscripts, focusing on their
explosion in printed midwifery and surgical books in Western Europe
from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. During this
period, birth figures formed a key part of the visual culture of
medicine and midwifery and were widely produced. They reflected and
shaped how the pregnant body was known and treated. And by
providing crucial bodily knowledge to midwives and surgeons, birth
figures were also deeply entangled with wider cultural
preoccupations with generation and creativity, female power and
agency, knowledge and its dissemination, and even the condition of
the human in the universe. Birth Figures studies how different
kinds of people understood childbirth and engaged with midwifery
manuals, from learned physicians to midwives to illiterate
listeners. Rich and detailed, this vital history reveals the
importance of birth figures in how midwifery was practiced and in
how people, both medical professionals and lay readers, envisioned
and understood the mysterious state of pregnancy.
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