“Women Should Become Thinner When They Are Pregnant”: Corpulency and Women's Reproductive Health in the Long Eighteenth Century

Goodge, Charlotte orcid.org/0000-0002-2441-5011 (Cover date: January 01 2025) “Women Should Become Thinner When They Are Pregnant”: Corpulency and Women's Reproductive Health in the Long Eighteenth Century. Eighteenth-Century Life, 49 (1). pp. 27-52. ISSN 0098-2601

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Keywords: fat women, corpulence, medicine, maternity, Lennox, Edgeworth
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  • Published: 1 January 2025
  • Accepted: 15 May 2024
Institution: The University of York
Academic Units: The University of York > Research Groups (York) > Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies (York)
The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > English and Related Literature (York)
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AH/R012806/1
Depositing User: Dr Charlotte Goodge
Date Deposited: 12 Feb 2025 12:07
Last Modified: 12 Feb 2025 12:07
Published Version: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-11523680
Status: Published
Publisher: Duke University Press
Identification Number: 10.1215/00982601-11523680
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