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WITCHES AND WORKING WOMEN HOW THE MYTH OF THE MIDWIFE -WITCH GAVE BIRTH TO MAN-MIDWIFERY a presentation by Jennifer Sveda INTRODUCTION European Witch-Hunt, 1450-1750 C.E. Decline of Female Midwives Man-Midwifery Impact of
a presentation by Jennifer Sveda
Man-Midwifery
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Sarah/Sairey Gamp
Character in Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens Drunk and incompetent
“Lowly she may have been, and inept she often
was…Her not very clean hands guided countless millions of babies into the world; her eventual emancipation from ignorance, incompetence, and poverty…is a chapter of medical history that has been much neglected.”
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Anti-witch literature
Maleficia vs. diabolism
Ursula Kemp, 1582
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More desirable alternative for mothers
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Experience
Improvements
Character
Criticism
2003&res_id=xri:eebo&res_dat=xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99830324 Chamberlen, Hugh. 1673. The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed. London. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88- 2003&res_id=xri:eebo&res_dat=xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99829392 Culpeper, Nicholas. 1676. Culpeper's Directory for midwives: or, A guide for women. London. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88- 2003&res_id=xri:eebo&res_dat=xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99899350 Draper, Stephen. 1686. Most dear and highly esteemed women. London. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88- 2003&res_id=xri:eebo&res_dat=xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99888723 King James I. 1597. Daemonologie. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25929/25929-h/25929-h.html
Kramer, Heinrich, and Jacob Sprenger. 1486. The Hammer of Witches. Trans. Christopher S. Mackay. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Ward, Edward. 1699. A hue and a cry after a man-midwife. London. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88- 2003&res_id=xri:eebo&res_dat=xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:13522990 W.W. 1582. “A true and just Recorde of the Information, Examination, and Confession of all the Witches, taken at St. Osyth in the County of Essex; whereof some were executed, and some others entreated according to the determination of law.” In The Witchcraft Papers, ed. Peter
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Hellwarth, Jennifer Wynne. 2002. The Reproductive Unconscious in Medieval and Early Modern England. New York: Routledge. Marland, Hilary, ed. 1993. The Art of Midwifery. New York: Routledge. Levak, Brian P. 2006. The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern England. Essex: Pearson Education Limited. Wilson, Adrian. 1995. The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660–1770. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.