Performing Maternity in Early Modern England

Performing Maternity in Early Modern England PDF Author: Kathryn M. Moncrief
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754661177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Book Description
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.