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Part I. Beginnings: theory, late antiquity (200-500), and the medieval period (500-1500). Conceptualizing pregnancy
Patterns of meaning: pregnancy in late antiquity
Christian procreation according to Augustine
Pregnancy and abortion in medieval society
Exceptional bodies: saints, relics, and dissection
Part II. The Enlightenment: from the Reformation to modernity (1400-1700). The Reformation: Protestantism, life, and marriage
Theories of procreation
Varieties of scientific truth: Descartes, deism, and relativism
Part III. Modernity: 1800-1900. The female egg and medical inventions
The divine conception: religious reactions to modernity
Fertility under debate: race, reason, and religion at the turn of the century
Part IV. Contemporary debates: the twentieth century to the present. Women and the virgin in the twentieth century: feminism and modern attitudes towards pregnancy
Legal abortion: the rise of liberal-democratic ideas of gender equality
Foetus or child?: Christian reactions to feminism
Objectification: women in contemporary culture.
Patterns of meaning: pregnancy in late antiquity
Christian procreation according to Augustine
Pregnancy and abortion in medieval society
Exceptional bodies: saints, relics, and dissection
Part II. The Enlightenment: from the Reformation to modernity (1400-1700). The Reformation: Protestantism, life, and marriage
Theories of procreation
Varieties of scientific truth: Descartes, deism, and relativism
Part III. Modernity: 1800-1900. The female egg and medical inventions
The divine conception: religious reactions to modernity
Fertility under debate: race, reason, and religion at the turn of the century
Part IV. Contemporary debates: the twentieth century to the present. Women and the virgin in the twentieth century: feminism and modern attitudes towards pregnancy
Legal abortion: the rise of liberal-democratic ideas of gender equality
Foetus or child?: Christian reactions to feminism
Objectification: women in contemporary culture.