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Contents List of Illustrations x Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 1. Reforming the Body 14 2. The Womb Goes Bad 53 3. Protesting and Preaching 90 4. Henry Jessey, Sarah Wight, and the Struggle to Make Women's Bodies into Knowledge 115 5. Culpeper's Radical Book 135 6. Reforming the Family and Refiguring the Body in the English Revolution 157 7. The Restoration Crisis in Paternity 196 Conclusions 244 Bibliography 250 Index 277
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Birth customs -- England -- History.
Childbirth -- England -- History.
Human reproduction -- England -- History.
Body, Human -- Social aspects -- England.
Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects -- England.
England -- History.
England -- Politics and government.
England -- Social life and customs.