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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Broomhall, Susan
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3103 - B
- Thesaurus
- media, literatuur, schrijvers, vroegmoderne periode, 16e eeuw, Frankrijk
- Description
- Broomhall asks whether women's experiences as authors changed when manuscript circulation gave way to the printed book as a standard form of publication. She broadens the concept of publication to include methods of scribal publication, through the circulation and presentation of manuscripts, and expands notions of authorship to incorporate a wide sample group of female writers and publishing experiences. .The study introduces a wide and rich range of unexamined sources on early modern women, using an extensive range of manuscripts and the entire corpus of women's printed texts in sixteenth-century France. The work presents a checklist of all known women's writings in printed texts, from prefaces and laudatory verse to editions of prose and poetry, between 1488 and 1599. This book constitutes the most comprehensive assessment of women's contribution to contemporary publishing yet available.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- McTavish, Lianne
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- FR 34 2005
- Thesaurus
- bevallingen, gynaecologie, verloskundigen, mannen, seksualiteit, vrouwenlichamen, vroegmoderne periode, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, Frankrijk
- Description
- Throughout the early modern period in France, surgeon men-midwives were predominantly associated with sexual impropriety and physical danger: yet over time they managed to change their image, and by the eighteenth century were summoned to attend even the uncomplicated deliveries of wealthy, urban clients. In this study, Lianne McTavish explores how surgeons strove to transform the perception of their midwifery practices, claiming to be experts who embodied obstetrical authority instead of intruders in a traditionally feminine domain. .McTavish argues that early modern French obstetrical treatises were sites of display participating in both the production and contestation of authoritative knowledge of childbirth. Though primarily written by surgeon men-midwives, the texts were also produced by female midwives and male physicians. She discovers that male practitioners did not always disdain maternal values. The men regularly identified themselves with qualities traditionally respected in female midwives, including a bodily experience of childbirth. Her findings suggest that men's entry into the lying-in chamber was a complex negotiation involving their adaptation to the demands of women.
medicine and the woman question in early modern France
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kem, Judy
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- FR 39 2019
- Thesaurus
- geestelijke gezondheid, SOA's, medicijnen, vroegmoderne periode, Frankrijk, 15e eeuw, 16e eeuw, literatuuronderzoeken
- Description
- This book examines the role of medicine in the debate on women, known as the querelle des femmes, in early modern France. Questions concerning women's physical makeup and its psychological and moral consequences played an integral role in the querelle. This debate on the status of women and their role in society began in the fifteenth century and continued through the sixteenth and well beyond. In querelle works early modern medicine, women's sexual difference, literary reception, and gendered language often merge. Literary authors perpetuated medical ideas such as the notion of allegedly fatal lovesickness, and physicians published works that included disquisitions on the moral nature of women. . .Judy Kem looks at the writings of Christine de Pizan, Jean Molinet, Symphorien Champier, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Marguerite de Navarre, examining the role of received medical ideas in the querelle des femmes. Kem reconstructs how these authors interpreted the traditional courtly understanding of women's pity or mercy on a dying lover, their understanding of contemporary debates about women's supposed sexual insatiability and its biological effects on men's lives and fertility, and how erotomania or erotic melancholy was understood as a fatal illness. While the two women who frame this study defended women and based much of what they wrote on personal experience, the three men appealed to male authority and tradition in their writings.
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