Performing Maternity in Early Modern England

The essays in Performing Maternity in Early Modern England explore maternity's textual and cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences from 1540-1690. They emphasize that the embodied, repeated and public nature of maternity defines it as inherently performative and ultimately central to the production of gender identity in the period.

• | Author: Kathryn R. McPherson
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Oct 28, 2007
• | Number of Pages: 262 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0754661172
• | ISBN-13: 9780754661177