Performing Maternity in Early Modern England

✍ Scribed by Kathryn M. Moncrief; Kathryn Read McPherson

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 270
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The essays in Performing Maternity in Early Modern England explore maternity's textual and cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences from 1540-1690. They emphasize that the embodied, repeated and public nature of maternity defines it as inherently performative and ultimately central to the production of gender identity in the period.

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