Margaret Cavendish's play The Convent of Pleasure (1668) gives readers emotional
whiplash as it pivots from a radical endorsement of queer female separatism in its first four …

La vie des mères et celle des tout-petits sont étroitement liées pendant la grossesse, la
naissance et ses suites, ce qui explique que leur santé ait longtemps été traitée …

Brook Advisory Centre (BAC)—the first center in Britain to provide contraceptive advice for
unmarried people—was screened at different cinema locations in London. The short clip …

In heutigen Schwangerschaftsratgebern ist oft von einem Nestbauinstinkt zu lesen.
Demnach würden Schwangere von einem Trieb ergriffen, die passende Umwelt für ihr Kind …

Due to his interest in the experiential elements of religion and his desire to gain a greater
understanding of holiness or sanctification, John Wesley wrote letters to some of his …

Listening to Birth asserts that structures of power reproduce themselves by instituting
particular modes of listening and sound production. Situating my research within feminist …

As advised in household recipe books and publicly published prescription books, this paper
will delve deep into the realm of domestic remedies particularly those recipes that assist in …

Today, many pregnancy guides mention a nesting instinct. According to this, pregnant
women would be seized by an urge to create the right environment for their child, for …

This thesis explores late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century British charitable medical
provision through a comparative study of the Edinburgh, Kelso, and Newcastle dispensaries …