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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Stensvold, Anne (1956-....)
Titre(s) : A history of pregnancy in Christianity [Texte imprimé] : from original sin to contemporary abortion debates / Anne Stensvold
Publication : New York : Routledge, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : vi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Comprend : Part I. Beginnings: theory, late antiquity (200-500), and the medieval period (500-1500).
Conceptualizing pregnancy ; Patterns of meaning: pregnancy in late antiquity ;
Christian procreation according to Augustine ; Pregnancy and abortion in medieval
society ; Exceptional bodies: saints, relics, and dissection ; Part II. The Enlightenment:
from the Reformation to modernity (1400-1700). The Reformation: Protestantism, life,
and marriage ; Theories of procreation ; Varieties of scientific truth: Descartes,
deism, and relativism ; Part III. Modernity: 1800-1900. The female egg and medical
inventions ; The divine conception: religious reactions to modernity ; Fertility
under debate: race, reason, and religion at the turn of the century ; Part IV. Contemporary
debates: the twentieth century to the present. Women and the virgin in the twentieth
century: feminism and modern attitudes towards pregnancy ; Legal abortion: the rise
of liberal-democratic ideas of gender equality ; Foetus or child?: Christian reactions
to feminism ; Objectification: women in contemporary culture.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Sujet(s) : Avortement -- Religion -- Christianisme
Grossesse -- Religion -- Christianisme
Grossesse -- Histoire
Avortement -- Aspect moral
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415857581. - ISBN 0415857589 (hbk) (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780415857598 (ppbk)
(alk. paper). - ISBN 0415857597 (ppbk) (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780203798898 (erroné)
(ebk) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44405780b
Notice n° :
FRBNF44405780
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