Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth

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University of Illinois Press, 1998 - 456 pages
 

Contents

The Plains of Troy and Bastille Day 1972
31
Writing the Body of Birth and Patriarchy
56
The Body of Birth Reconsidered
86
The Place of Birth and Social Change
113
Myths of Origins and the Development of Patriarchy
147
From Julius Caesar to Taurus the Bull
179
Obstetric Strategies
200
Unsavory Saviors
249
Narrative Interruption
271
Historical Foremothers
293
Taking Our Maternal Bodies Back
319
Lessons of the Milk
361
Epilogue
393
Bibliography
395
Index
427
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