Description: "A bilingual edition of the previously unpublished treatise on the "art of childbirth" composed in 1671 by eighteenth-century practitioner Marie Baudoin, sent as a letter to the prominent Parisian physician Dr. Noèel Vallant and later found embedded within that male author's extensive literary product"--
Brief description: Marie Baudoin was a seventeenth-century midwife.
Review Quotes: "McClive's wonderful edition of the midwife Marie Baudoin's treatise makes available a rare and important piece of early modern women's writing. She contextualizes the rich Baudoin text with a superb introduction that locates Baudoin's work in multiple intersecting historiographies: histories of medicine, science, midwives, vernacular knowledge production, women's work broadly defined, religion, the economy and especially credit networks and microcredit, archives and economies of information, social welfare institutions, and early modern France. This veritable microhistory provides a multi-faceted framework for the text that persuasively conveys the importance of Baudoin's work and writing for early modern historians."--Julie Hardwick, John E. Green Regents Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin