Narrating Pregnancy and Childbirth: Infanticide and the Dramatization of Reproductive Knowledge
In early modern England, infanticide was a crime overwhelmingly associated with women. Both popular texts and legal records depict women accused of infanticide as mothers acting against nature. These figures, however, do not often appear in the period’s drama. Instead, early modern drama i...
Main Author: | Elizabeth Steinway |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2018-11-01
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Series: | Humanities |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/7/4/120 |
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