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OverviewThe extraordinary story of a seventeenth-century French midwife and her treatise on childbirth. In 1671, Marie Baudoin (1625–1700), head midwife and governor of the Hôtel-Dieu of Clermont-Ferrand, sent a treatise on the art of childbirth to her powerful Parisian patron, Dr. Vallant. The story of how Baudoin’s knowledge and expertise as a midwife came to be expressed, recorded, and archived raises the question: Was Baudoin exceptional because she was herself extraordinary, or because her voice has reached us through Vallant’s careful archival practices? Either way, Baudoin’s treatise invites us to reconsider the limits of what we thought we knew midwives “could be and do” in seventeenth-century France. Grounding Marie Baudoin’s text in a microanalysis of her life, work, and the Jansenist network between Paris and Clermont-Ferrand, this book connects historiographies of midwifery, Jansenism, hospital administration, public health, knowledge and record-keeping, and women’s work, underscoring both Baudoin’s capabilities and the archival accidents and intentions behind the preservation of her treatise in a letter. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marie Baudoin , Cathy Mcclive , Cathy McClivePublisher: Iter Press Imprint: Iter Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.414kg ISBN: 9781649590787ISBN 10: 1649590784 Pages: 254 Publication Date: 19 January 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction A Midwife’s Life and Work Who Was Marie Baudoin? Marie Baudoin as a Jansenist Woman Clermont-Ferrand: Hospitals and Jansenists Mme Baudoin’s Career at the Hôtel-Dieu in Clermont-Ferrand Communities: Religious, Scientific, Financial, and Emotional A Physician, a Midwife, and Their Jansenist Networks A Woman of Means: Mme Baudoin’s Credit Networks and Financial Acumen Midwifery in Early Modern France Midwifery Texts in Seventeenth-Century France Midwifery Training in Mid-Seventeenth-Century France Midwifery Work and Practice in Seventeenth-Century France Surgical Instruments and the Performance of Expertise The Treatise in a Letter Epistolary Midwifery The Letter as Material Object Unseen and Unpublished: The Hidden Treatise Vallant’s Portefeuilles: Record-Keeping and Archival Afterlives Why Did the Treatise Remain Unpublished? Reception and Afterlife of the Treatise Notes on the Transcription and Translation Transcription Translation Key to Transcription and Translation Translation of Mme Baudoin’s Epistolary Treatise Transcription of Mme Baudoin’s Epistolary Treatise Bibliography IndexReviewsMcClive's wonderful edition of the midwife Marie Baudoin's treatise makes available a rare and important piece of early modern women's writing. She contextualizes the rich Baudoin text with a superb introduction that locates Baudoin's work in multiple intersecting historiographies: histories of medicine, science, midwives, vernacular knowledge production, women's work broadly defined, religion, the economy and especially credit networks and microcredit, archives and economies of information, social welfare institutions, and early modern France. This veritable microhistory provides a multi-faceted framework for the text that persuasively conveys the importance of Baudoin's work and writing for early modern historians. --Julie Hardwick, John E. Green Regents Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin Author InformationMarie Baudoin was a seventeenth-century midwife. Cathy McClive is an associate professor of history at Florida State University. She is the author of Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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