Common bodies women, touch, and power in seventeenth-century England
"This 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 seventee...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven
Yale University Press
[2003]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Uncertain knowledge
- The politics of touch
- Consent and desire
- "The child in me"
- Childbed conflicts
- Precarious parenthood