Common bodies : women, touch and power in seventeenth-century England / Laura Gowing

Author:: Gowing, Laura
Published:: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2003]
Copyright Date:: ©2003
Physical Description:: viii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Uncertain knowledge -- The politics of touch -- Consent and desire -- 'The child in me': perceiving pregnancy -- Childbed conflicts -- Precarious parenthood.

Subject(s):

Women—England—Social conditions—17th century
Women—England—Sexual behavior—History—17th century
Sexual ethics—England—History—17th century
Motherhood—England—History—17th century
Human body—Social aspects

ISBN:

0300100965 (alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-248) and index.

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