A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000 by Hanson, C.

A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333986448)

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A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000 by Hanson, C.

A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000

$54.99
A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000 by Hanson, C.

A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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Hanson explores the different ways in which pregnancy has been constructed and interpreted in Britain over the last 250 years. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including obstetric texts, pregnancy advice books, literary texts, popular fiction and visual images, she analyzes changing attitudes to key issues such as the relative rights of mother and foetus and the degree to which medical intervention is acceptable in pregnancy. Hanson also considers the effects of medical and social changes on the subjective experience of pregnancy.

Author: C. Hanson
ISBN-10: 033398644X
ISBN-13: 9780333986448
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/11/2004
Pages: 214
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.46w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2005 pg. 886
By C. Hanson
By C. Hanson
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CLARE HANSON is Professor of English at Loughborough University. She has published widely on women's writing and on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and her books include Katherine Mansfield (co-author), Short Stories and Short Fictions, 1880-1980, Virginia Woolf and most recently a study of the woman's novel, Hysterical Fictions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).

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