A history of pregnancy in Christianity from original sin to contemporary abortion debates
- Titel:
- A history of pregnancy in Christianity from original sin to contemporary abortion debates
- Jaar:
- 2015
- URL:
- http://limo.libis.be/KULeuven:PHYS_ITEMS:32LIBIS_ALMA_DS71175769860001471
- Onderwerp:
- Barber, Samuel, Bibliography
392.3 <09> Familieleven. Familiesystemen. Gezinsleven. Matriarchaat. Patriarchaat. Kinship--Geschiedenis van . - Taal:
- Engels
- Plaatsnummer:
- ISBN:
- 9780415857581
9780415857598 - Paginering:
- vi, 210 p.
- Samenvatting:
- Introduction. PART I. Beginnings: Theory, Late Antiquity (200-500), and the Medieval Period (500-1500). -- 1. Conceptualising Pregnancy. -- 2. Patterns of Meaning. -- 3. Christian Procreation According to Augustine. -- 4. Pregnancy and Abortion in Medieval Society. -- 5. Exceptional Bodies. -- PART II. The Enlightenment: from the Reformation to Modernity (1400-1700). -- 6. The Reformation/ Protestantism, Life, and Marriage. -- 7. Theories of Procreation. -- 8. Varieties of Scientific Truth: Descartes, Deism, and Relativism. --PART III. Modernity: 1800-1900. -- 9. The Female Egg and Medical Inventions. -- 10. The Divine Conception: Religious Reactions to Modernity. -- 11. Fertility Under Debate: Race, Reason, and Religion at the Turn of the Century. -- PART IV. Contemporary Debates: The Twentieth Century to the Present. -- 12. Women and the Virgin in the 20th Century: Feminism and Modern Attitudes towards Pregnancy. -- 13. Legal Abortion: The Rise of Liberal-Democratic Ideas of Gender Equality. -- 14. Foetus or Child? Christian Reactions to Feminism. -- 15. Objectification: Women in Ceontemporary Culture. -- Afterthoughts. -- Bibliography. -- Index.
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