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Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England - Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Caroline Bicks
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.
208 pages, 12 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 28, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780754609384 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 570 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Poska, Professor Allyson M. |
| Series Editor | Zanger, Professor Abby |
