Negotiating Theology and Gynecology: Anne Bradstreet's Representations of the Female Body

Using the literary imaginings of Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Lutes explores the interplay of body and mind, religion and science, experience and ideology, that constituted female bodies in the Puritan culture of New England. She shows how Bradstreet's model of feminine experience situated itself wi...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1997-01, Vol.22 (2), p.309-340
1. Verfasser:	Lutes, Jean Marie
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anatomy & physiology Birth Body image Bradstreet, Anne (1612-72) Childbirth Children Culture Definitions Diseases Females Feminism Gynecology History Human Body Ideology Infants Literary criticism Literature Males Men Motherhood Mothers New England Poetry Poets Portrayal Puritanism Religious literature Social History Sociology Sociology of the family. Age groups Theology United States Woman social status. Women's emancipation Women
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Zusammenfassung:	Using the literary imaginings of Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Lutes explores the interplay of body and mind, religion and science, experience and ideology, that constituted female bodies in the Puritan culture of New England. She shows how Bradstreet's model of feminine experience situated itself within a dynamic network of competing ideas about women's bodies.
ISSN:	0097-9740 1545-6943
DOI:	10.1086/495158