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Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources to recover how ordinary men and women understood the process of reproduction. Because the human body was often used as a metaphor for social relations, the events of high politics reshaped popular ideas about conception and pregnancy.Fissell, Mary E. is the author of 'Vernacular Bodies The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England', published 2007 under ISBN 9780199202706 and ISBN 0199202702.
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