Jennifer Evans
I am a historian of gender and medicine in early modern England. In particular I am interested in issues to do with the body, health, sex and reproduction. More broadly my research touches upon ideas of marriage, the family and medical practitioners. My doctoral thesis, completed at the University of Exeter in 2011, examined infertility and the understanding of aphrodisiacs in the early modern period.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
health Blog posts medicine early modern seventeenth century bodies Gender surgery Women's health disease medical texts pregnancy masculinity sex women humours history of medicine attitudes eighteenth century illness
14 July 2021
Reading Thomas Chamberlayne's 1656 publication, The Compleat Midwifes Practice, that shared the knowledge and case notes of Louise Bourgeois, a French Royal midwife, there are numerous...
1 March 2021
1 March is St. David’s Day, Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant celebrating the patron saint of Wales, St. David, who was a bishop of Mynyw in the 6th century. As a part of this celebration...
Gender Concealed: How to get a boy in the early modern era
10 February 2021
Gender reveal parties, which started some time in the 2000s, have become increasingly elaborate and Instagram worthy. Some excessive stunts have even caused raging wildfires. When I...
12 January 2021
The baby walker is a device to support an infant who is not yet independently mobile to ‘walk’ around. In the past they were thought to aid the child’s development...