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Family Planning and the Long Eighteenth-Century Pocketbook (2023)

Helen Williams (Author)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Volume: 46
Issue: 1
Pages: 113-133
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

URI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1754-0208.12867

DOI: 10.1111/1754-0208.12867

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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.

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Article Ashleigh Blackwood; Helen Williams (2023) Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 3-20). unapi

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