Common bodies
Subtitle: women, touch and power in seventeenth-century England
By: Laura Gowing.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Women -- England -- Social conditions -- 17th century; Women -- England -- Sexual behavior -- History -- 17th century; Sexual ethics -- England -- History -- 17th century; Motherhood -- England -- History -- 17th century; Body, Human -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: Uncertain knowledge; title: The politics of touch; title: Consent and desire; title: 'The child in me': perceiving pregnancy; title: Childbed conflicts; title: Precarious parenthood.