Ritual and conflict : the social relations of childbirth in early modern England, by Adrian Wilson

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-250) and index

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Contents: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Legitimate and Bastard Births; Illegitimacy as a Risk; Regimes of Punishment; The Impact of Punishment; The Problem of Maintenance; The Fate of the Single Mother; Desperate Remedies; 2 The Bonds of Marriage; The Solemnisation of Matrimony; Worldly Goods; 'With my body I thee worship'; To Obey and Serve; Enforcing Obedience; The 'Patriarchal Family'?; 3 Gender and Power; Skimmingtons and Shrews; Narratives of Gender-relations; The 'Original' of Masculine Government; Collusion, Resistance, Contests; 4 The Ceremony of Childbirth; A Female Ritual; The Midwife's Office; Lying-in; Baptism; The Meaning of the Ceremony; Churching: A Safe Deliverance; Conclusion; Counter-power, Collective Culture, Interests; The Bodily and the Social; Bibliography; Index

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