{"product_id":"presence-erin-maglaque-9781787336803","title":"Presence","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bold new history of the female body, combining memoir with archival research to reveal a hidden history of birthing, caring and desiring - with radical implications for how we understand our bodies today\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A work of remarkable archival scholarship... extraordinary' Harriet Baker\n\u003cbr\u003e'Illuminating and brave' Alison Light\n\u003cbr\u003e'A wonderful history... intimate, fascinating and touching' Ian Mortimer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn immersive hidden history of the female body, with radical implications for how we understand our bodies today\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSex 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCombining 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the invisible history of the female body - birthing, caring, working, desiring. Reaching deep into the shared history of women's lives, Presence points towards a radical new way of understanding our bodies today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An important, original contribution to modern feminist writing about the body' Gabriel Weston\n\u003cbr\u003e'Immersive, revelatory and astonishing' Sophie Gilbert\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Erin Maglaque","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49929183625459,"sku":"9781787336803","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781787336803.jpg?v=1784233539","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/presence-erin-maglaque-9781787336803","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}