Perceptions Of Pregnancy From The Seventeenth To The Twentieth Century Genders And Sexualities In History

Introduction, Jennifer Evans and Ciara Meehan.- PART I: NARRATIVES OF PREGNANCY, BIRTH, AND PARENTHOOD.- 1. Breeding' a little stranger': Managing Uncertainty in Pregnancy in Late Georgian England, Joanne Begiato.- 2. Bound to be a troublesome time': Canadian Perceptions of Pregnancy, Parturition and Pain, 1867-1920, Whitney Wood.- 3. Families, Vulnerability and Sexual Violence during the Irish Revolution, Justin Dolar Stover.- 4. Audible Birth, Listening Women: Storytelling the Labouring Body on Mumsnet.com, Anija Dokter.- PART II: LITERARY PREGNANCIES.- 5. Feminine Value and Reproduction in Rowley's The Birth of Merlin, Sanner Garofalo.- 6. Pregnant Women Gaze at the Precious Thing their Souls are Set on': Perceptions of the Pregnant Body in Early Modern Literature, Sara Read.- 7. Babies without Husbands: Unmarried Motherhood in 1960s British Fiction, Fran Bigman.- PART III: CONSUMERS, PARTICIPANTS AND PATIENTS.- 8. The Birth of the Pregnant Patient-Consumer? Payment, Paternalism and Maternity Hospitals in Early Twentieth-Century England, George Campbell Gosling.- 9. 'Closer Together': Durex Condoms and Contraceptive Consumerism in 1970s Britain, Ben Mechen.