Marketing Midwives in Seventeenth-Century London: A Re-examination of Jane Sharp's The Midwives Book

The seventeenth-century midwife Jane Sharp has been heralded as a pioneer of early modern English midwifery manuals. While the practice of childbirth remained a female domain in Sharp's day, the publishing of childbirth manuals was a decidedly male one. Most scholars agree that Sharp was, in fa...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Gender & history 2014-08, Vol.26 (2), p.223-241
1. Verfasser:	Walsh, Katharine Phelps
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Birth Childbirth & labor Females France History of medicine Knowledge London, England Males Marriage Medicine Midwifery
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