1st Edition
Reproductive Rituals The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century
By Angus McLaren
Copyright 1984
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. The book discusses both through anthropological research and reviews of contemporary literature that conscious family limitation was practised before the nineteenth century. The volume describes a surprising number of rules, regulations, taboos, injunctions, charms and herbal remedies... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction: History and Cultural Anthropology
1 The Pleasures of Procreation: Traditional and Biomedical Theories of Conception
2. ‘To Remedy Barrenness and to Promote the Faculty of Generation’: Promoting Fertility, 1500-1800
3. ‘Excellent Recipes to Keep from Bearing Children’: Restricting Fertility, 1500-1800
4. ‘All Manner of Art, to the Help of Drugs and Physicians’: Abortion as Birth Control
5. ‘Converting this Measure of Security into a Crime’: The Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion Laws
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Biography
Angus McLaren
