Common bodies : women, touch, and power in seventeenth-century England

Publication Data

• Title Common bodies : women, touch, and power in seventeenth-century England
• Author Laura Gowing
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2003
• Publication location New Haven
• Language English

Contents

Uncertain knowledge
The politics of touch
Consent and desire
"The child in me"
Childbed conflicts
Precarious parenthood.

Topics

• Women :: England :: Social conditions :: 17th century
• Women :: England :: Sexual behavior :: History :: 17th century
• Sexual ethics :: England :: History :: 17th century
• Motherhood :: England :: History :: 17th century
• 010337677

Common bodies : women, touch, and power in seventeenth-century England by Laura Gowing. ISBN 0300100965. Published by Yale University Press in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.