Birthing the nation: sex, science, and the conception of eighteenth-century Britons
Рождение нации: пол, наука и формирование представлений о британцах XVIII века
2006-02-01
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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-
Key Findings
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Changing ideas about sex and birth helped Britons imagine aspects of their individual identities and broader social identities.
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The analysis connects eighteenth-century reproductive ideas to the development of nationalism and modern concepts of gender and identity.
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The book argues that male scientific thought during the long eighteenth century transformed meanings attached to sex and birth.
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The book focuses particularly on how middling-sort maternity contributed to these changing understandings, although the abstract is truncated.
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eighteenth-century Britons and their individual and social identities
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the ways male science altered the meanings of sex and birth, shaping ideas of national, gender, and personal identity
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