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How reproductive injustice in early modern Europe could mirror that of today

"There was no such thing as reproductive freedom for poor women in early modern Catholic Europe," states a recent article in the Journal of Modern History. The work examines several facets of "reproductive unfreedom" in the early modern period: namely, single motherhood, foundling hospitals, and wet...

How reproductive injustice in early modern Europe could mirror that of today
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"There was no such thing as reproductive freedom for poor women in early modern Catholic Europe," states a recent article in the Journal of Modern History. The work examines several facets of "reproductive unfreedom" in the early modern period: namely, single motherhood, foundling hospitals, and wet nursing.

Originally published at Phys.org

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