Reproductive Rituals: The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth...

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Angus McLaren

Reproductive Rituals

The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century...

Angus McLaren

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Routledge
22 January 2020

Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Social & cultural history; Medical sociology; Human reproduction, growth & development

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Ritual

Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. The book discusses both through anthropological research and reviews of contemporary literature that conscious family limitation was practised before the nineteenth century. The volume describes a surprising number of rules, regulations, taboos, injunctions, charms and herbal remedies used to affect pregnancy, and shows the extent to which individual women and men were concerned with controlling the size of their families. The fertility levels in England – as in Western Europe as a whole – were a very long way from the biological maximum in these centuries, and the book discusses the various reasons why this was so. The book reviews traditional ideas concerning the relationship between procreation and pleasure, drawn from a range of contemporary sources and discusses ways in which earlier generations sought both to promote and limit fertility. The book also examines abortion and shows how much evidence there is for its actual practice during the period and of traditional views towards it. This book provides a detailed understanding of historical attitudes towards conception family planning in pre-industrial England.

By: Angus McLaren
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 4
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 557g
ISBN: 9780367434502
ISBN 10: 0367434504
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Ritual
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 22 January 2020
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Introduction: History and Cultural Anthropology 1. The Pleasures of Procreation: Traditional and Biomedical Theories of Conception 2. ‘To Remedy Barrenness and to Promote the Faculty of Generation’: Promoting Fertility, 1500-1800 3. ‘Excellent Recipes to Keep from Bearing Children’: Restricting Fertility, 1500-1800 4. ‘All Manner of Art, to the Help of Drugs and Physicians’: Abortion as Birth Control 5. ‘Converting this Measure of Security into a Crime’: The Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion Laws Conclusion Notes Index

Angus McLaren