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The Study of Anatomy in Britain, 1700–1900
Hutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative history of anatomical study. Using the Anatomy Act as a focal point, she examines how these two cities dealt with the …
Stays and Body Image in London
This book fills a significant gap in the literature on eighteenth-century social and cultural history. Starting with their production and trade, Sorge-English looks at the …
Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500–1800
Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same. During the seventeenth century, medical and legal arguments began to turn against this ‘one-sex’ …
The Life of Madame Necker
Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker’s life – …
The Early Modern Child in Art and History
Childhood is not only a biological age, it is also a social construct. The essays in this collection range chronologically from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, and …
The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838-1900
Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a programme of population growth. Balsoy …
Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany
This book is the first work to look at the full range of three centuries of the early modern period in regards to infanticide and abortion, a period in which both practices were …
Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660–1800
The essays in this collection explore representations of and responses to sexual violence over the course of the long eighteenth century. Contributors examine the underlying …
The Prostitute's Body
Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic.
The English Execution Narrative, 1200–1700
Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population at large. She argues …
Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England
Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for ‘aging’ existed at this time, a person’s age was a significant …
Women, Agency and the Law, 1300–1700
Based on close readings of both public and private documents – court records, churchwarden accounts, depositions, diaries, letters and pamphlets – this collection of essays …