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Monica Green talks about several women in the masculinity book.

It wasn't necessary for midwives to be literate. Several women were midwives in Medieval England. Often they could be married to male medical practitioners. Except for Asseline Alexandre, a woman who attended the births of the Duchess of Burgundy in the 1370s married to a bourgeois of Paris. and Pierrette de Bouvile the sworn midwife in the 1460s in the village of Arpajon south of Paris. she was married to a churchwarden.