Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate,

Not of Woman Born : Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski. - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019] ©1991 - 1 online resource : 27 halftones

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Caesarean Birth in Medical Thought -- 2. Caesarean Birth in the Artistic Imagination -- 3. The Marginalization of Women in Obstetrics -- 4. Saintly and Satanic Obstetricians -- Appendix Creative Etymology: "Caesarean Section" from Pliny to Rousset -- Annotated List of Illustrations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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In English.

9781501740480

10.7591/9781501740480 doi


LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.

RG761

618.8/6/0902