Birthing the Nation

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Birthing the Nation is written by Lisa Forman Cody and published by Oxford University Press, USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199268649 (ISBN 10) and 9780199268641 (ISBN 13).

Birthing the Nation analyses two intertwined narratives that shaped eighteenth-century British life: the development of the modern British state, and the emergence of the man-midwife as the pre-eminent authority over sex and childbirth. By exploring peculiar episodes in the history of the reproductive body and the body politic, from stories of pregnant men to rumours that a midwife had foisted a 'suppositious' child on the nation as the Prince of Wales, this original andprovocative work proposes how national, religious, ethnic, and gendered identities were experienced through and symbolized by birth and midwifery.