Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England

Name: Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781409468127
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By Adrian Wilson

Series: The History of Medicine in Context

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Ritual and Conflict explores childbirth in early-modern England as a socially embedded event, weaving through themes of illegitimacy, marriage, and gender relations. Focusing primarily on the seventeenth century, Adrian Wilson examines how childbirth rituals constituted a collective means for women to navigate and influence family and societal structures, challenging prevailing patriarchal norms and shedding new light on domestic power dynamics and gender order between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in early modern history, gender studies, social history, and the history of family and childbirth. It suits scholars, students, and anyone keen to understand the intersection of ritual, conflict, and gender in historical contexts.

This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the 'ceremony of childbirth', the popular ritual through which women collectively controlled this.

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Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy—the violation of the marital norm—it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the 'ceremony of childbirth', the popular ritual through which women collectively controlled this, the pivotal event in their lives.

Focussing on the seventeenth century, but ranging from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, this study offers a new viewpoint on themes such as the patriarchal family, the significance of illegitimacy, and the structuring of gender-relations in the period.

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Praised for its rigorous scholarship, the book is described as a deeply thought-provoking and excellently researched work that inspires historians across disciplines. Reviewers highlight Wilson's creative use of primary and secondary sources and the compelling new history it offers of family, gender, and power. Laura Gowing of King’s College, London, commends it as a finely argued deconstruction of the patriarchal family that offers a fresh perspective on intimacy and domestic power through childbirth rituals.

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ISBN: 9781409468127

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 October 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

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Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 270

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About the Author

Adrian Wilson is Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine at the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds, UK.

Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England