The Renaissance Midwife

• Authors: Reghina Dascăl
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the delineation of the subversiveness-ridden career of the midwife in history and with the specific circumstances under which this privileged hypostasis of womanhood undergoes major changes during the 17th century. The main focus of the presentation is the female engagement with the public space during the Renaissance and the major impact of the emergent male empirical science - the scientific paradigm of New Science - upon it. The Magnetic Lady by Ben Jonson, an unduly neglected play, will provide a meaningful cultural illustration of this shift

Keywords

EN

female lore; midwife; misogyny; Renaissance; subversiveness

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 146-159

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-08

Contributors

author

Reghina Dascăl

• West University of Timișoara 4, Pârvan Blvd, Timișoara, Romania

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10320-012-0035-4