Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England by Laura Gowing

Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England

Laura Gowing

272 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature, and detailed legal records from courts that were obsessively conc...

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