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Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Premodern Views on Childlessness

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

Rather than outlining a history of discrimination against or the suffering of infertile couples, this book explores the mechanisms used to justify the unequal treatment of persons without children. Exploring views on childlessness across theology, medicine, law, demonology, and ethics, it undertakes a comprehensive examination of ‘fertility’ as an identity category from the perspective of new approaches in gender and intersectionality research. Shedding light on how premodern views have shaped understandings our own time, this book is highly relevant interest to students and scholars interested in discourses around infertility across history.  weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-031-08979-4 / 978-3031089794 / 9783031089794

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2023

Seiten: 255

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Regina Toepfer
Übersetzt von Kate Sotejeff-Wilson

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