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Gendered Theologies of Childbirth in Early Modern Germany and the Devotional Handbook for Pregnant Women by Aemilie Juliane, Countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1683)
Ist Teil von
Journal of women's history, 2003-07, Vol.15 (2), p.40-67
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2003
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
While most devotional texts created by (male) theologians and pas
tors for pregnant women to recite daily and during labor in early modern
Lutheran Germany probably augmented women's fears about
childbirth and perhaps even enhanced their physical suffering in the
name of spiritual "improvement," the texts one woman supplied had a
very different tone and likely a different effect. Aemilie Juliane
von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1637-1706) replaced the female persona men
manufactured with a woman's own voice, and in so doing, she replaced a
latently misogynistic, patriarchal theology in the context of childbirth
with a practical theology of maternal empathy. Close reading of Aemilie
Juliane's texts in her devotional handbook for pregnant women and
comparison with those authored by men illuminate the gendered nature of
the orthodox theological approach to pregnancy and childbirth and make
a quietly dissenting (female) voice better known to historians.