Midwiving subjects in Shakespeare's England

Introduction: Midwiving Subjects

1. Lurking in the Gossip's Bowl: Men's Tales and Women's Words

2. "Sometimes the Midwives break it": Pressing Maids and Making Women

3. "As God makes, so the Midwife shapes": Crowning Heads and Reforming English Bodies

4. Stealing the Seal: Baptizing Women and the Mark of Kingship

5. "(Miraculous) Matter": Lucina at Ephesus and the Churching of Women

Epilogue: Lucina in London.