Gowing, Laura.

Common bodies : women, touch, and power in seventeenth-century England / Laura Gowing. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003. - viii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-248) and index.

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

0300100965 (alk. paper)

2003012939


Women--Social conditions--England--17th century.
Women--Sexual behavior--History--England--17th century.
Sexual ethics--History--England--17th century.
Motherhood--History--England--17th century.
Human body--Social aspects.

HQ1599.E5 / G69 2003

305.42/0942/09032