Maternal measures : figuring caregiving in the early modern period /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot ; Burlington, USA : Ashgate, c2000. |
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| Description: | xvi, 374 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Women and gender in the early modern world |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4332600 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. Mothering Others: Caregiving as Spectrum and Spectacle in the Early Modern Period
- Part I. Conception and Lactation
- 2. Mirrors of Language, Mirrors of Self: The Conceptualization of Artistic Identity in Gaspara Stampa and Sofonisba Anguissola
- 3. Midwiving Virility in Early Modern England
- 4. To Bare or Not Too Bare: Sofonisba Anguissola's Nursing Madonna and the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
- 5. "But Blood Whitened": Nursing Mothers and Others in Early Modern Britain
- Part II. Nurture and Instruction
- 6. Language and "Mothers' Milk": Maternal Roles and the Nurturing Body in Early Modern Spanish Texts
- 7. Motherhood and Protestant Polemics: Stillbirth in Hans von Rute's Abgotterei (1531)
- 8. The Virgin's Voice: Representations of Mary in Seventeenth-Century Italian Song
- 9. "His open side our book": Meditation and Education in Elizabeth Grymeston's Miscelanea Meditations Memoratives
- Part III. Domestic Production
- 10. Negativizing Nurture and Demonizing Domesticity: The Witch Construct in Early Modern Germany
- 11. The Difficult Birth of the Good Mother: Donneau de Vise's L'Embarras de Godard, ou l'Accouchee
- 12. "Players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds": Conflicting Identities of Early Modern English Women
- 13. Maternal Textualities
- Part IV. Social Authority
- 14. "My Mother Musicke": Music and Early Modern Fantasies of Embodiment
- 15. Marian Devotion and Maternal Authority in Seventeenth-Century England
- 16. Mother Love: Cliches and Amazons in Early Modern England
- 17. Native Mothers, Native Others: La Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacajawea
- Part V. Mortality
- 18. London's Mourning Garment: Maternity, Mourning and Royal Succession
- 19. Early Modern Medea: Representations of Child Murder in the Street Literature of Seventeenth-Century England
- 20. "I fear there will a worse come in his place": Surrogate Parents and Shakespeare's Richard III
- Index
