Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture

This book examines a selection of texts to illuminate how midwifery, obstetrics and women’s bodies were viewed during the long eighteenth century, and how these material-discursive entanglements between science, medicine, literature and culture have shaped society's views of pregnancy, childbirth and reproduction. Drawing on feminist theories, including feminist new materialism, this book traces the history of both the reproductive body and the medical knowledges that attended to pregnancy and c