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Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in 17th-Century England
Common Bodies Women Touch and Power in 17thCentury England
Author: Laura Gowing
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 concerned with regulating morals, the book recaptures seventeenth-century popular understandings of sex ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300100969
ISBN-10: 0300100965
Publication Date: 11/1/2003
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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