Conceiving Histories
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Conceiving Histories
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Author : Isabel Davis
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2025-02-25
Conceiving Histories written by Isabel Davis and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-25 with Social Science categories.
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of trying to conceive in both the past and the present. Inspired by the author’s own experience, Conceiving Histories brings together history, personal memoir, and illustration to investigate the culturally hidden experience of trying to conceive. In elegant, engaging prose, Isabel Davis explores the combination of myth, fantasy, science, and pseudo-science that the (un)reproductive body encounters in pursuit of a viable pregnancy. The book chronicles the trying-to-conceive lifecycle arc from sex education at school, through the desire to be a parent, into the specifics of trying and struggling to conceive. It also looks back at conception throughout history to open a new vista on what we live with today. A central argument of Davis’s is that historical people lived with the unknown just like we do but were more explicitly able to acknowledge it. In an age of assistive reproductive technologies, the act of embracing uncertainty seems difficult. Although the topic of not conceiving is potentially painful, this is not a grim book; more than grief, it is motivated by curiosity, wonder, compassion, and even humor. With 108 full-color illustrations, Conceiving Histories is also a beautiful material object, an intentionally playful antidote and supplement to Google—the resort of so many embroiled in fertility challenges.
History Of Childbirth
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Author : Jacques Gélis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
History Of Childbirth written by Jacques Gélis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Health & Fitness categories.
"Highly detailed and clearly written, this book is the first full-length study of the complex system of practices, beliefs and taboos which surrounded conception and childbirth in early modern Europe. In a rich and scholarly study, Jacques Gelis reconstructs the activities and attitudes of the midwives and mothers, and the sufferings they had to endure. He continues with an examination of the role of the Church, the herbalist and the mineral world (touchstones and talisman) in the explanation of the mysteries of procreation."--Amazon.ca.
Perceptions Of Pregnancy From The Seventeenth To The Twentieth Century
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Author : Jennifer Evans
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-12-31
Perceptions Of Pregnancy From The Seventeenth To The Twentieth Century written by Jennifer Evans and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-31 with History categories.
This multi-disciplinary collection brings together work by scholars from Britain, America and Canada on the popular, personal and institutional histories of pregnancy. It follows the process of reproduction from conception and contraception, to birth and parenthood. The contributors explore several key themes: narratives of pregnancy and birth, the patient-consumer, and literary representations of childbearing. This book explores how these issues have been constructed, represented and experienced in a range of geographical locations from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Crossing the boundary between the pre-modern and modern worlds, the chapters reveal the continuities, similarities and differences in understanding a process that is often, in the popular mind-set, considered to be fundamental and unchanging.
Conceiving The Old Regime
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Author : Leslie Tuttle
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-15
Conceiving The Old Regime written by Leslie Tuttle and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-15 with History categories.
The French obsession with population has roots in the Old Regime, when the nascent French state used its growing power to convince French men and women to marry and procreate large families. Drawing on extensive archival research, Tuttle explores the interactions of men, women, and officials all vying for control of the reproductive process.
Infertility
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Author : Robin E. Jensen
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2016-09-29
Infertility written by Robin E. Jensen and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe. Throughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive children has been explained by discrepant views: that women are individually culpable for their own reproductive health problems, or that they require the intervention of medical experts to correct abnormalities. Using doctor-patient correspondence, oral histories, and contemporaneous popular and scientific news coverage, Robin Jensen parses the often thin rhetorical divide between moralization and medicalization, revealing how dominating explanations for infertility have emerged from seemingly competing narratives. Her longitudinal account illustrates the ways in which old arguments and appeals do not disappear in the light of new information, but instead reemerge at subsequent, often seemingly disconnected moments to combine and contend with new assertions. Tracing the transformation of language surrounding infertility from “barrenness” to “(in)fertility,” this rhetorical analysis both explicates how language was and is used to establish the concept of infertility and shows the implications these rhetorical constructions continue to have for individuals and the societies in which they live.
A Cultural History Of Pregnancy
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Author : C. Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-06-11
A Cultural History Of Pregnancy written by C. Hanson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-11 with Social Science categories.
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.
Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth
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Author : Nadia Filippini
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-14
Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth written by Nadia Filippini and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-14 with Family & Relationships categories.
This book reconstructs the history of conception, pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the 20th century, focusing on its most significant turning points: the emergence of a medical-scientific approach to delivery in Ancient Greece, the impact of Christianity, the establishment of the man-midwife in the 18th century, the medicalisation of childbirth, the emergence of a new representation of the foetus as "unborn citizen", and, finally, the revolution of reproductive technologies. The book explores a history that, far from being linear, progressive or homogeneous, is characterised by significant continuities as well as transformations. The ways in which a woman gives birth and lives her pregnancy and the postpartum period are the result of a complex series of factors. The book therefore places these events in their wider cultural, social and religious contexts, which influenced the forms taken by rituals and therapeutic practices, religious and civil prescriptions and the regulation of the female body. The investigation of this complex experience represents a crucial contribution to cultural, social and gender history, as well as an indispensable tool for understanding today’s reality. It will be of great use to undergraduates studying the history of childbirth, the history of medicine, the history of the body, as well as women's and gender history more broadly.
Conceiving The Future
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Author : Laura L. Lovett
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009-11-30
Conceiving The Future written by Laura L. Lovett and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-30 with History categories.
Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction. Their pronatalism emerged from a modernist conviction that reproduction and population could be regulated. European countries sought to regulate or encourage reproduction through legislation; America, by contrast, fostered ideological and cultural ideas of pronatalism through what Laura Lovett calls "nostalgic modernism," which romanticized agrarianism and promoted scientific racism and eugenics. Lovett looks closely at the ideologies of five influential American figures: Mary Lease's maternalist agenda, Florence Sherbon's eugenic "fitter families" campaign, George Maxwell's "homecroft" movement of land reclamation and home building, Theodore Roosevelt's campaign for conservation and country life, and Edward Ross's sociological theory of race suicide and social control. Demonstrating the historical circumstances that linked agrarianism, racism, and pronatalism, Lovett shows how reproductive conformity was manufactured, how it was promoted, and why it was coercive. In addition to contributing to scholarship in American history, gender studies, rural studies, and environmental history, Lovett's study sheds light on the rhetoric of "family values" that has regained currency in recent years.
Through Not Around
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Author : Allison McDonald Ace
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2019-01-26
Through Not Around written by Allison McDonald Ace and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-26 with Health & Fitness categories.
These stories, written by Canadians, paint a picture of what it's like to experience the emotional and physical facets of infertility, miscarriage, and pregnancy loss: the pain, sadness, desperation, hope, humour, frustration, and also the knowledge that while these issues are often out of our control, there is a way through them.
Trying To Conceive
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Author : Michaela Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-02-05
Trying To Conceive written by Michaela Ryan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-05 with Health & Fitness categories.
Being as desperate as I was for a baby, I thought I was completely open and ready for motherhood. But I look back and realise that I was putting up a lot of resistance on an emotional level. So it turns out I was my own worst enemy. I knew instinctively that my attitude had to change before this baby could freely come into my life... This was Michaela Ryan's experience of trying to fall pregnant and her story will resonate with many couples trying to conceive. While stress is a well-known factor affecting fertility, other more subtle issues can play a major role - such as unresolved fears about becoming a parent, childhood traumas, repressed emotions, self-esteem issues and relationship difficulties. Mark and his wife Charlotte had to learn to work together as a team and make their relationship a priority before they fell pregnant. Deb and Keith endured 23 IVF cycles and had to deal with numerous miscarriages before Deb radically changed her lifestyle and fell pregnant. With fifteen real-life stories, this compelling, uplifting and often humorous book examines an area of infertility largely ignored and offers practical solutions for couples dealing with fertility issues.