Talks With Julia Martins About The History of Childbirth‪!‬ The Adventures of a Birth Photographer

Welcome to this EPIC episode where I invited Julia Martins to the show to talk about the history of childbirth. Julia is in her final-year PhD at King’s College London. Her thesis is about the translation of “secrets of women” from Italian into French and English in the 16th and 17th centuries, and how the circulation of knowledge about sex and reproduction shaped the way the sexed body was understood. In this episode find out what recipe books have to do with childbirth, what tradition...