Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-century England by Yale University Press
Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-century England
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Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-century England

Yale University Press

272 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative fast-paced
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This title explores 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,...

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