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

by Laura Gowing

Book Overview

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 and reproduction. This history of the female body is at once intimate and wide-ranging, with sometimes startling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300207956
• ISBN13: 9780300207958
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"