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Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic / ed. by Emily Colbert Cairns, Nieves Romero-Diaz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World ; 25Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048557868
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.874/30946 23/eng/20240821
LOC classification:
  • HQ759 .E27 2024
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. DEFINING MATERNITY -- 1. ‘Services for Which I Expect to be Compensated’ : Mothering as a Salaried Labor in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon -- 2. Noble Maternity in Castile, 1400–1650 -- 3. Maternity in the Portraits of Spanish Queens: Mariana of Habsburg -- 4. The Stains of the Mother : Indian Mothers and Mestizo Children in Early Colonial Peru -- II. BECOMING PREGNANT AND GIVING BIRTH -- 5. “Urinating on Lettuce and Throwing Your Hands Up”: Infertility in Early Modern Spain -- 6. Motherhood and Gender : When the Queen Has Only Daughters—The Case of Mariana Victoria de Bourbon (1718–81) -- 7. ‘Para retener la criatura’: Miscarriage in Early Modern Spain -- 8. Maternal Bodies and Fertile Letters : The Politics of Motherhood Networking in Estefania de Requesens’ Correspondence -- III. DAILY LIVING MOTHERHOOD -- 9. Motherhood and the Early Modern Woman Artist -- 10. Casa de Niños Expósitos: The Substitute Mother in Colonial Mexico -- 11. Cruel or Prudent Mothers? Troubled Relationships, Disobedient Daughters, and Social Risk (Eighteenth-Century Barcelona) -- Afterword -- List of Contributors (in alphabetical order) -- Index
Summary: Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic is the first volume to emphasize women’s personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlantic. Although an official discourse that defined the conditions of motherhood emerged in the eighteenth century, before this period there were many different articulations of motherhood through which women negotiated hierarchical relationships, power struggles and alliances. While the individual experiences were unique and depended upon the positionality of race and class, the complexities of being a mother were universal. The wide variety of written and visual documents included in this volume highlight women’s voices in the first person along with more subtle references to motherhood as well as silences. This collection broadens our understanding of the complexities of motherhood, addressing the pressures of becoming a mother, miscarriage, the acts of giving birth and lactation and the ordeals of raising children.
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Frontmatter -- Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. DEFINING MATERNITY -- 1. ‘Services for Which I Expect to be Compensated’ : Mothering as a Salaried Labor in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon -- 2. Noble Maternity in Castile, 1400–1650 -- 3. Maternity in the Portraits of Spanish Queens: Mariana of Habsburg -- 4. The Stains of the Mother : Indian Mothers and Mestizo Children in Early Colonial Peru -- II. BECOMING PREGNANT AND GIVING BIRTH -- 5. “Urinating on Lettuce and Throwing Your Hands Up”: Infertility in Early Modern Spain -- 6. Motherhood and Gender : When the Queen Has Only Daughters—The Case of Mariana Victoria de Bourbon (1718–81) -- 7. ‘Para retener la criatura’: Miscarriage in Early Modern Spain -- 8. Maternal Bodies and Fertile Letters : The Politics of Motherhood Networking in Estefania de Requesens’ Correspondence -- III. DAILY LIVING MOTHERHOOD -- 9. Motherhood and the Early Modern Woman Artist -- 10. Casa de Niños Expósitos: The Substitute Mother in Colonial Mexico -- 11. Cruel or Prudent Mothers? Troubled Relationships, Disobedient Daughters, and Social Risk (Eighteenth-Century Barcelona) -- Afterword -- List of Contributors (in alphabetical order) -- Index

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Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic is the first volume to emphasize women’s personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlantic. Although an official discourse that defined the conditions of motherhood emerged in the eighteenth century, before this period there were many different articulations of motherhood through which women negotiated hierarchical relationships, power struggles and alliances. While the individual experiences were unique and depended upon the positionality of race and class, the complexities of being a mother were universal. The wide variety of written and visual documents included in this volume highlight women’s voices in the first person along with more subtle references to motherhood as well as silences. This collection broadens our understanding of the complexities of motherhood, addressing the pressures of becoming a mother, miscarriage, the acts of giving birth and lactation and the ordeals of raising children.

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