Book of Donmon Teith

This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters

This volume examines early modern representations of women’s reproductive knowledge through new readings of plays, monstrous birth pamphlets, medical treatise

It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation o

This book explores how the pregnant body is portrayed, perceived and enacted in Shakespeare’s and his contemporaries’ drama by means of a phenomenological a

In nineteenth-century America, Gillian Silverman contends, reading—and particularly book reading—precipitated intense fantasies of communion. In handling a