Maternal measures : figuring caregiving in the early modern period

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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 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.

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