Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England
Caroline Bicks
Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2003
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The female-dominated medical discipline of midwifery in Shakespeare's day led to male-dominated tales of female incompetence and physiological obfuscation. In this study Caroline Bicks shows how Shakespeare pointed to a history of the discipline in which women wielded considerable power.
- ISBN-13
- 9780754609384
- ISBN-10
- 0754609383
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Year
- 2003
- Publication date
- 2003-05-28
- Pages
- 224
- Dimensions
- 219x153x
- Weight
- 570