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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Publisher's acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes and references; 1 Attitudes to menstruation in seventeenth-century England; Appendix: Attitudes to pregnancy, from a woman's spiritual diary, 1687-8; Notes and references; 2 Sexual knowledge in England, 1500-1750; Medical and theological knowledge in early medieval England; Popular knowledge about sexuality; Notes and references; 3 The construction and experience of maternity in seventeenth-century England; Notes and references. 4 Blood and paternityCultural discourses: blood, medicine and law; The fictions of the law; Fathers and children of 'base' blood; 'Children of his own'; Notes and references; 5 'The sucking child': adult attitudes to child care in the first year of life in seventeenth-century England; Notes and references; 6 Katharine and Philip Henry and their children: a case study in family ideology; Notes and references; 7 Sibling relationships; Who were siblings? Consanguinity and affinity; Siblings and inheritance; The obligations of siblings; Siblings and the sense of self; Notes and references