Add to ORKGMidwifery is an ancient profession that boasts the proud tradition of providing care for women and babies throughout the period of a woman's pregnancy and during childbirth. Contextualising this study against the historical background of Britain, we observed that before the seventeenth century, women, on the whole, were the only gender present at deliveries and were principal figures in managing childbirth. However, by the end of the eighteenth century, Britain witnessed an increasing professional domination of men over childbirth. Journeying across two centuries (17th-18th C.), this paper chronicles how the changing societal context of each period resulted in the varying ways men gradually intercepted and attached their signific...
In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept t...
The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contempor...
In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept t...
Pregnancy and childbirth is a biologically and socially constructed event which shaped the lives of ...
In early modern Europe, medical men (sometimes known as “man-midwives”) became increasingly involved...
In early modern Europe, medical men (sometimes known as “man-midwives”) became increasingly involved...
This thesis intends to show how the field of British midwifery changed through the rise of male-midw...
Eve Keller locates the emergence of the masculinist modern, liberal self in seventeenth century em...
Eve Keller locates the emergence of the masculinist modern, liberal self in seventeenth century em...
In seventeenth and eighteenth century France, the medical world took an increased interest in the fu...
Until the sixteenth century, childbirth in England was the exclusive domain of women and was orchest...
In the eighteenth century, the unanimous and uncontested authority of female midwives over the birth...
The term medicalization has been defined as the process by which non-medical issues come to be defin...
Midwives had long been considered experts in pregnancy and childbirth prior to the Scientific Revolu...
In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept t...
In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept t...
The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contempor...
In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept t...
Pregnancy and childbirth is a biologically and socially constructed event which shaped the lives of ...
In early modern Europe, medical men (sometimes known as “man-midwives”) became increasingly involved...
In early modern Europe, medical men (sometimes known as “man-midwives”) became increasingly involved...
This thesis intends to show how the field of British midwifery changed through the rise of male-midw...
Eve Keller locates the emergence of the masculinist modern, liberal self in seventeenth century em...
Eve Keller locates the emergence of the masculinist modern, liberal self in seventeenth century em...
In seventeenth and eighteenth century France, the medical world took an increased interest in the fu...
Until the sixteenth century, childbirth in England was the exclusive domain of women and was orchest...
In the eighteenth century, the unanimous and uncontested authority of female midwives over the birth...
The term medicalization has been defined as the process by which non-medical issues come to be defin...
Midwives had long been considered experts in pregnancy and childbirth prior to the Scientific Revolu...
In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept t...
In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept t...
The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contempor...
In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept t...