Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture: Bodies of Knowledge, 1726-1818

This book examines a selection of texts to illuminate how midwifery, obstetrics and women’s bodies were viewed during the long eighteenth century, and how these material-discursive entanglements between science, medicine, literature and culture have shaped society’s views of pregnancy, childbirth and reproduction.

Jennifer S. Henke is a literary and cultural studies scholar, with a PhD from the University of Bremen, Germany. Until recently, she was interim professor in Anglophone Gender Studies at the University of Greifswald, Germany.