Article ID: CBB354579557

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

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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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Authors & Contributors
Hess, Volker
Mendelsohn, J. Andrew
Barnes, Diana
Depledge, Greta
DiMoia, John P.
Eddy, Matthew Daniel
Journals
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Book History
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Publishers
Rutgers University Press
University of Rochester Press
University of Sussex
Viella
Bensei Shuppan
Concepts
Women and health
Family planning
Birth control; contraception; sterilization
Notebooks
Public health
Medicine
People
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Lavoisier, Marie-Anne Paulze
Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady
Newton, Isaac
Sauvages, François Boissier de
Time Periods
18th century
20th century
17th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Korea
Europe
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