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Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XVII , n° 1, Giugno 1999 ( Contributi ) pag. 222-241

PREGNANT BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE:
ITALIAN NARRATIVES OF FETAL MOVEMENT
CRISTINA MAZZONI
University of Vermont,
Burlington, Vermont
Paolo Mantegazza, the most popular medical intellectual of turn-of-the-century Italy, begins the chapter on motherhood of his
successful manual Fisiologia della donna (1893) with a narrative of fetal movement imbued with the bourgeois stereotype of maternal womanhood. [...]
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