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• catalog abstract ""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 seventeenth-century popular understandings of sex and reproduction. This history of the female body is at once intimate and wide-ranging, with sometimes startling insights into how early modern women maintained, or forfeited, control over their own bodies." "Laura Gowing explores the ways social and economic pressures of daily life shaped the lived experiences of bodies: the cost of having a child, the vulnerability of being a servant, the difficulty of prosecuting rape, the social ambiguities of widowhood. She explains how the female body was governed most of all by other women - wives and midwives. Gowing casts new light on beliefs and practices concerning women's bodies of the time and provides an original perspective on the history of women and gender."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b13019516.
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description ""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 seventeenth-century popular understandings of sex and reproduction. This history of the female body is at once intimate and wide-ranging, with sometimes startling insights into how early modern women maintained, or forfeited, control over their own bodies." "Laura Gowing explores the ways social and economic pressures of daily life shaped the lived experiences of bodies: the cost of having a child, the vulnerability of being a servant, the difficulty of prosecuting rape, the social ambiguities of widowhood. She explains how the female body was governed most of all by other women - wives and midwives. Gowing casts new light on beliefs and practices concerning women's bodies of the time and provides an original perspective on the history of women and gender."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-248) and index.".
• catalog description "Uncertain knowledge -- The politics of touch -- Consent and desire -- 'The child in me': perceiving pregnancy -- Childbed conflicts -- Precarious parenthood.".
• catalog extent "viii, 260 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0300100965 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
• catalog spatial "England".
• catalog spatial "England.".
• catalog subject "2003 N-392".
• catalog subject "305.42/0942/09032 21".
• catalog subject "HQ 1599.E5 G723c 2003".
• catalog subject "HQ1599.E5 G69 2003".
• catalog subject "Human body Social aspects.".
• catalog subject "Motherhood England History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Reproductive Behavior England History.".
• catalog subject "Sexual Behavior England History.".
• catalog subject "Sexual ethics England History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Social Environment England.".
• catalog subject "Women England History.".
• catalog subject "Women England Sexual behavior History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Women England Social conditions 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Women Sexual behavior England History 17th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Uncertain knowledge -- The politics of touch -- Consent and desire -- 'The child in me': perceiving pregnancy -- Childbed conflicts -- Precarious parenthood.".
• catalog title "Common bodies : women, touch and power in seventeenth-century England / Laura Gowing.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".