b| GOSA c| GOSA j| GOSA

a| 9780415857581 c| hardback

a| 9780415857598 c| paperback

a| (BeLVLBS)9992177361301471

a| LOC-2009042179

a| (OCoLC)ocn455871662

a| (EXLNZ-32KUL_LIBIS_NETWORK)9992177361301471

a| BeLVLBS b| Language of cataloging varies e| rda based

a| A history of pregnancy in Christianity b| from original sin to contemporary abortion debates

a| New York b| Routledge c| 2015

a| vi, 210 p.

a| text 2| rdacontent

a| unmediated 2| rdamedia

a| volume 2| rdacarrier

a| 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.

a| Barber, Samuel, d| 1910-1981 v| Bibliography.

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a| Stensvold, Anne d| 1956- 4| aut

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