A history of pregnancy in Christianity from original sin to contemporary abortion debates - Stensvold, Anne 1956- (New York Routledge, 2015)
Introduction. PART I. Beginnings: Theory, Late Antiquity (200-500), and the Medieval Period (500-1500). -- 1. Conceptualising Pregnancy. -- 2. Patterns of Meaning. -- 3. Christian Procreation According to Augustine. -- 4. Pregnancy and Abortion in Medieval Society. -- 5. Exceptional Bodies. -- PART II. The Enlightenment: from the Reformation to Modernity (1400-1700). -- 6. The Reformation/ Protestantism, Life, and Marriage. -- 7. Theories of Procreation. -- 8. Varieties of Scientific Truth: Descartes, Deism, and Relativism. --PART III. Modernity: 1800-1900. -- 9. The Female Egg and Medical Inventions. -- 10. The Divine Conception: Religious Reactions to Modernity. -- 11. Fertility Under Debate: Race, Reason, and Religion at the Turn of the Century. -- PART IV. Contemporary Debates: The Twentieth Century to the Present. -- 12. Women and the Virgin in the 20th Century: Feminism and Modern Attitudes towards Pregnancy. -- 13. Legal Abortion: The Rise of Liberal-Democratic Ideas of Gender Equality. -- 14. Foetus or Child? Christian Reactions to Feminism. -- 15. Objectification: Women in Ceontemporary Culture. -- Afterthoughts. -- Bibliography. -- Index.
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