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Taylor & Francis Maternal Measures Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period 2001 Edition by Naomi J. Miller, Naomi Yavneh
Care-givers in the early modern period included not only mothers and stepmothers, but also midwives and nurses, tutors and educators, wise women and witches. The contributors to this volume present research and criticism on a wide range of early modern care-giving roles by women in England, Italy, Spain, France, Latin America, Mexico and the New World. The essays are not only cross-cultural but also interdisciplinary, spanning literature, history, music and art history; and they focus on differences of gender, class and race. A wide variety of scholarly and critical approaches are represented. Essays are grouped in categories on conception and lactation; maternal nurture and instruction; domestic production; and social authority. Table of Contents : Mothering others - caregiving as spectrum and spectacle in the early modern period, Naomi J. Miller. Part 1 Conception and lactation: mirrors of language, mirrors of self - the conceptualization of artistic identity in Gaspara Stampa and Sofonisba Anguissola, Judith Rose; midwiving virility in early modern England, Caroline Bicks; to bare or not to bare - Sofonisba Anguissola's nursing Madonna and the womanly art of breastfeeding, Naomi Yavneb; "but blood whitened" - nursing mothers and others in early modern Britain, Rachel Trubowitz. Part 2 Nurture and instruction: language and "mother's milk" - maternal roles and the nurturing body in early modern Spanish texts, Emilie L. Begmann; motherhood and Protestant polemics - stillbirth in Hans von Rute's "Abgotterei", 1531, Glenn Ehrstine; the Virgin's voice - representations of Mary in 17th-century song, Claire Fonijn; "his open side our book" - meditation and education in Elizabeth Grymeston's "Miscelanea Meditations Memoratives", Edith Snook. Part 3 Domestic production: negativising nurture and demonizing domesticity - the witch construct in early modern Germany, Nancy Hayes; the difficult birth of the good mother - Donneau de Vise's "L'Embarras de Godard, ou L'Accouchee", Deborah Steinberger; "players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds" - conflicting identities of early modern English women, Mary Thomas Crane; maternal textualities, Susan Frye. Part 4 Social authority: "my mother musicke" - music and early modern fantasies of embodiment, Linda Phyllis Austern; Marian devotion and maternal authority in 17th-century England, Frances E. Dolan; mother love - cliches and Amazons in early modern England, Kathryn Schwarz; native mothers, native others - Al Malinche, Pocahontas, and Scajawea, Kari McBride. Part 5 Mortality: London's mourning garments - maternity, mourning and Royal succession, Patricia Phillipy; early modern Medea - representations of child murder in the street literature of 17th-century England, Susan C. Staub; "I fear there will a worse come in his place" - surrogate parents and Shakespeare's "Richard III", Heather Dubrow.