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Item Details
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DANGEROUS MOTHERHOOD
INSANITY AND CHILDBIRTH IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN |
| By: |
Hilary Marland |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£78.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230511864 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230511866 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
30 June, 2004 |
| Description: |
The first study of the close and complex relationship between mental disorder and childbirth. Exploring the relationship between women, their families and their doctors reveals how explanations for the onset of puerperal insanity were drawn from a broad set of moral, social and environmental frameworks. |
| Synopsis: |
Dangerous Motherhood is the first study of the close and complex relationship between mental disorder and childbirth. Taking as its main focus the early and mid-Nineteenth Century, it traces the creation of a new category of mental breakdown, one linked closely to ideals of maternity and domestic ideology. Exploring the relationship between women, their families and their doctors reveals how explanations for the onset of puerperal insanity were drawn from a broad set of moral, social and environmental frameworks, rather than being bound to female vulnerability and biological explanations alone. Puerperal insanity was no discriminator between social classes, striking wealthy ladies, cushioned by luxury and attended in childbirth by the best medical attendance available, just as much as poor women, debilitated by want and hardship,. The horror of this devastating disorder whuich upturned the household, turning gentle mothers into disruptive and dangerous mad women, and in the worst-case scenario child-murderers, was magnified by it occurring at a time when it was anticipated that women would be most happy in the fulfillment of their role as mothers. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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