Family Planning and the Long Eighteenth‐Century Pocketbook
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21789665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Williams (0000-0002-0031-3758, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 113-133 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-0194 • E-ISSN: 1754-0208 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1754-0208.12867 |
| OpenAlex | W4321788683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Eighteenth‐century medical literature recommended that women record their menstrual cycles to identify dates of conception, measure gestation, and predict delivery. Women's pocketbooks were natural repositories of such pregnancy‐related data. This article charts the history of women's pocketbooks providing printed affordances for menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth. Throughout the eighteenth century, women's printed pocketbooks were self‐conscious of, and began to make more obvious, their potential to assist the safe delivery of children. The first mass‐produced tool for predicting childbirth, Anton F.A. Desberger's Schwangerschaftskalender (1827), translated into English as the Marriage Almanack in 1835, presupposed a female readership familiar with women's pocketbooks' self‐conscious capacity to assist family planning
Audience measurement · Childbirth · Environmental health · Family planning · Menstruation · Obstetrics · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |