The ‘cursus laborum’ of Roman Women: Social and Medical Aspects of the Transition from Puberty to Motherhood

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nIllustrations\nAbbreviations and Editions\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n	Cursus laborum feminae Romanae\n	Women\n	Mothers\n	In statu nascendi\n	The transition from puberty to motherhood: Women’s reproductive health\n	The premise\n	Sources\n	Limitations and expectations: A summary\n1 Marriage: The Institution that Makes One a Mother\n	Liberorum procreandorum causa\n	Does everyone want to have children?\n2 Women Preparing to Be Mothers\n	Menstruation\n	Roman girls’ sex education\n	Those who died young: ‘wed to death’\n	Fertility issues\n	Fertility and the gods\n3 Specialized Care for the Would-be Mother\n	Medicae\n	Obstetrices\n	Obstetrix et medica – or, obstetrix id est medica ?\n	Why not a man-physician?\n4 Pregnancy and Its Course\n	Symptoms of pregnancy\n	Boy or girl?\n	The course of a normal pregnancy: Advice given to the pregnant\n	Unusual pregnancies\n	Miscarriage\n	Male violence and the death of pregnant women\n	‘The lucky have children in three months\'\n	Pregnancy in the light of visual sources\n5 Parturition\n	Symptoms of the onset of labour\n	Normal labour\n	Closely monitored labour\n	Inducing labour and pain relief\n	Abnormal labour\n	Death in childbirth and the postpartum period\n	Divine protection during childbirth\n6 Dies lustricus: The Birth of . . . a Mother?\n	Caring for a woman in puerperium\n	Caring for a newborn: Fashioning a human being\n	The social birth of the child – and the mother\nConclusion\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex