Vernacular Bodies : The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

by Mary E . Fissell (Author), Mary E . Fissell (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $57.64

  Offers a way to think about the history of the body by focusing on women's bodies, showing how ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth were also ways of talking about gender relations and thus all relations of power. This study provides ways to understand how ordinary people experienced political conflicts and social change.