Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece - Couverture rigide

Demand, Nancy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801847621 ISBN 13 : 9780801847622

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Why did Greek society foster social conditions, especially early marriage with its attendant early childbearing, that were known to be dangerous for both mother and child? What were the actual causes of death among women described as dying of childbirth in the Hippocratic Epidemics? Why did families choose to portray labor scenes on tombstones when the Greek commemorative tradition otherwise avoided reference to suffering and illness? In Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece, Nancy Demand offers the first comprehensive exploration of the social and cultural construction of childbirth in ancient Greece. Reading the ancient evidence in light of feminist theory, the Foucauldian notion of discursively constituted objects, medical anthropology, and anthropological studies of the modern Greek village, Demand discusses topics that include midwifery, abortion, attitudes of doctors toward women patients, and the treatment of women generally. For evidence, she relies primarily on the case histories in the Epidemics concerning women with complications in pregnancy, abortion, and childbirth. She also draws relevant details from cure records and dedications from healing sanctuaries, labor scenes depicted on tombstones, Aristophanic comedy, andPlatonic philosophy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nancy Demand is professor emeritus of history at Indiana University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801847621
• ISBN 13: 9780801847622
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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