Abortion in early modern Italy /

"Abortion in Early Modern Italy investigates the variety of meanings Italians gave to abortion, and asks how and why these meanings were created, reproduced, modified, and challenged. It shows that early modern Italy was not an absolute and timeless anti-abortion culture, an exemplary "Cat...

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Main Author: Christopoulos, John, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Series:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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Summary:"Abortion in Early Modern Italy investigates the variety of meanings Italians gave to abortion, and asks how and why these meanings were created, reproduced, modified, and challenged. It shows that early modern Italy was not an absolute and timeless anti-abortion culture, an exemplary "Catholic Italian" and "traditional family" centered society that some might wish to conjure for political ends. When we expand our source base and adjust our methodology with the explicit aim of recovering the thoughts, practices and experiences of as many individuals as possible, we discover attitudes and practices surrounding abortion that are, not unlike our own, far more complicated"--
Item Description:EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America
Physical Description:1 online resource (360 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0674249380
9780674249363
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9780674249370
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9780674249387