Birthing the nation: sex, science, and the conception of eighteenth-century Britons

Abstract

Birthing the Nation is an ambitious book that engages with debates about the development of nationalism and the formation of modern ideas about gender and identity.Lisa Forman Cody argues that during the long eighteenth century male science altered the meanings of sex and birth in ways that helped Britons to imagine specific aspects of their individual and social identities both at home and abroad.Middling sort maternity be-

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