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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gowing, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven Yale University Press [2003]
Subjects:
1600-1699
Women > England > Social conditions > 17th century.
Women > Sexual behavior > England > History > 17th century.
Sexual ethics > England > History > 17th century.
Motherhood > England > History > 17th century.
Human body > Social aspects.
Social ecology.
Sexual Behavior > history
Women > history
Reproductive Behavior > history
Social Environment
Femmes > Angleterre > Conditions sociales > 17e siècle.
Femmes > Sexualité > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Morale sexuelle > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Maternité > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Corps humain > Aspect social.
Écologie sociale.
human ecology.
HISTORY > General.
Human body > Social aspects
Motherhood
Sexual ethics
Women > Sexual behavior
Women > Social conditions
Selbstverständnis
Sexualethik
Mutterschaft
Lebensbedingungen
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Körpererfahrung
Frau
Vrouwen.
Sociale situatie.
Seksualiteit.
Moederschap.
Lichamelijkheid.
Women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 17th century.
Women > Sexual behavior > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Sexual ethics > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Motherhood > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
England
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Uncertain knowledge
  • The politics of touch
  • Consent and desire
  • "The child in me"
  • Childbed conflicts
  • Precarious parenthood

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