TY  - BOOK
AU  - Couto-Ferreira,M.Erica
AU  - Verderame,L.
TI  - Cultural constructions of the uterus in pre-modern societies, past and present
SN  - 9781527514348
AV  - HQ1122 .C88 2018eb
U1  - 305.409 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Uterus
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Women
KW  - Femininity (Philosophy)
KW  - Culture
KW  - Medicine, Medieval
KW  - Femininity
KW  - history
KW  - Human Body
KW  - History, Ancient
KW  - History, Medieval
KW  - Utérus
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Féminité (Philosophie)
KW  - Médecine médiévale
KW  - culture note
KW  - aat
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History
KW  - Humanities
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 1; The Iron Age saunas of NW Spain as metaphors of the uterus; Marco V. García Quintela --; 2; Uterine architecture : womb and space in Sumero-Akkadian sources; M. Erica Couto-Ferreira --; 3; Dalle sette caverne alla sala parto : un excursus su concezioni e pratiche intorno all'utero nel Messico antico e moderno; Alessandro Lupo --; 4; Aspects of the womb and embracing the dead in ancient Egypt; Cathie Spieser --; 5; A cold place, a hot place : female matrix in the Aristotelian theory of generation; Marzia Soardi --; 6; Amuleti e medicina : rimedi per problemi mestruali; Attilio Mastrocinque --; 7; The maternal womb in Greek culture : some notes on the importance of shapes, caves and their healing, life-giving springs; Evy Johanne Håland --; 8; The womb of the Church : uterine expulsion in the early Middle Ages; Zubin Mistry
N2  - This volume addresses a set of historical questions that explore the multiple aspects associated with the uterus through the dissection of both learned and popular sources, material evidence, daily practices, iconography, and representation. It transcends Eurocentric models of understanding and representing the female body by bringing into the discussion a number of case studies taken from a larger number of cultural and social historical realities, including the Mediterranean, the Ancient Near East, Pre-Columbian America, East Asia, and Medieval Europe, that are explored from the methodologic
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