Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905 PDF
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Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905 NORA E. JAFFARY The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill This volume was published with the assistance of the Greensboro Women’s Fund of the University of North Carolina. Founding Contributors: Linda Arnold Carlisle, Sally Schindel Cone, Anne Faircloth, Bonnie McElveen Hunter, Linda Bullard Jennings, Janice J. Kerley (in honor of Margaret Supplee Smith), Nancy Rouzer May, and Betty Hughes Nichols. © 2016 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in Charis and Lato by Westchester Publishing Services Manufactured in the United States of America The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Jaffary, Nora E., 1968– author. Title: Reproduction and its discontents in Mexico : childbirth and contraception from 1750 to 1905 / Nora E. Jaffary. Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015049993 | ISBN 9781469629391 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469629407 (pbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469629414 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Childbirth–Mexico–History. | Contraception–Mexico–History. Classification: LCC RG67.M6 J34 2016 | DDC 618.200972–dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015049993 Cover illustration: Fetus in the womb, Plate 4 from José Ventura Pastor, Preceptos generales sobre las operaciones del parto (1789–90). Courtesy of Wellcome Library, London. Portions of chapters 2 and 3 were previously published as “Reconceiving Motherhood: Infanticide and Abortion in Colonial Mexico,” Journal of Family History 37, no. 1 (2012): 3– 22. Portions of chapter 5 were previously published as “Monstrous Births and Creole Patriotism in Late Colonial Mexico,” The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 68, no. 2 (2011): 179–207. This material is reprinted with permission. For Ed Contents Abbreviations for Archival Sources in the Notes, Appendixes, and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Midwifery, Monstrosity, and Motherhood Part I Purity and Productivity: Understanding Virginity, Conception, and Pregnancy 1 The Evolution of Virginity 2 Conception and Pregnancy Part II The Hidden History of Contraception, Abortion, and Infanticide 3 Contraception and Abortion 4 Infanticide Part III Populating the Patria 5 Monstrous Births 6 Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Birth Conclusion Change and Constancy in Mexico’s Reproductive History Appendix I. Abortion Cases, 1823–1884 Appendix II. Infanticide Cases, 1823–1897 Glossary Notes Bibliography Index Figures and Tables Figures 1 Legal abortion advertisement, Mexico City, 2011, xiv 2 Cristóbal de Villalpando, La anunciación, 22 3 Vaginal examination in vertical position, 1825, 70 4 A woman in labor, in bed, 1789, 71 5 María de los Santos de Pérez, 1889, 136 6 Monstrous birth: girl with two heads, 1741, 153 7 Monstrous birth: bicorporal infants, 1793, 155 8 Monstrous birth: infant with four buttocks and legs, 1789, 158 9 Monstrous birth: infant born without skull, 1893, 166 10 Midwife in naming ceremony in the Codex Mendoza, 180 11 Birth chamber, ca. 1830, 182 12 Birth instruments, 1789, 191 Tables 1 Midwives by ethnicity and civil status in Mexico, 1566–1888, 50 2 Abortion cases, Mexican Archives, 1652–1793, 93 3 Infanticide cases, Mexican Archives, 1699–1819, 106 4 Denunciations and convictions for infanticide in Mexico by decade, 1820s–1890s, 107 Abbreviations for Archival Sources in the Notes, Appendixes, and Tables ACSCJ Archivo Central de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, Mexico City AGI Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain AGN Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City AHET Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala City AHFM Archivo Histórico de la Facultad de Medicina, Mexico City AHJO Archivo Histórico Judicial del Estado de Oaxaca, Oaxaca City AHMO Archivo Histórico Municipal de la Ciudad de Oaxaca AHSS Archivo Histórico de la Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City TSJDF Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Distrito Federal
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