Presence

Erin Maglaque

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Sex and abortion, pregnancy and birth, feeding and rocking and washing: these are embodied practices with a deep past. Yet the history of the female body remains largely unknown - even unimagined. In this exhilarating book, Erin Maglaque explores the hidden history of the desiring, labouring, caring women of the pre-modern past. From fragments in medical texts, trial transcripts, legal treatises, prayerbooks, letters, and diaries, she assembles a chorus of women's voices. We encounter a vanished past both strikingly recognisable and strange, when ideas of the female body, sexuality, work and pleasure were more varied, more unruly, and sometimes freer.


Author(s): Maglaque, Erin
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 18/06/2026
Pagination: 320 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published By: Jonathan Cape
Book Classification: Social & cultural history|Feminism & feminist theory|Collected biographies
Dimensions: 242 x 164 x 32
Weight: 532
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781787335356

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