{"product_id":"presence-a-hidden-history-of-the-female-body","title":"Presence","description":"'A work of remarkable archival scholarship... extraordinary' \u003cb\u003eHarriet Baker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Illuminating and brave' \u003cb\u003eAlison Light\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A wonderful history... intimate, fascinating and touching' \u003cb\u003eIan Mortimer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn immersive hidden history of the female body, with radical implications for how we understand our bodies today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Combining memoir with archival research, from fragments in medical texts, trial transcripts, legal treatises, prayerbooks, letters, and diaries, Erin Maglaque assembles a chorus of women's voices from the pre-modern past. 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is the invisible history of the female body - birthing, caring, working, desiring. Reaching deep into the shared history of women's lives, \u003ci\u003ePresence\u003c\/i\u003e points towards a radical new way of understanding our bodies today.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'An important, original contribution to modern feminist writing about the body' \u003cb\u003eGabriel Weston\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Immersive, revelatory and astonishing' \u003cb\u003eSophie Gilbert\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body","offer_id":46284426379461,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/presence-a-hidden-history-of-the-female-body","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}