Common bodies : women, touch and power in seventeenth-century England / Laura Gowing. women, touch and power in seventeenth-century England /
This title explores how women in 17th century England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature, and detailed legal records from courts that were obsessively concerned with regulating morals, it recaptures 17th century popular understandings of sex and reproduction.
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New Haven, [Conn.] ; London :
Yale University Press,
c2003.
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