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Presence: A Hidden History Of The Female Body
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A Vibrant History Of WomenS Bodies, Expertise, And Work From A Major New WriterStylish, Revelatory, And Liberating.Today, We Understand The Mind And The Body To Be Distinct; That The Mind Exercises Control Over The Flesh. But As Erin Maglaque Experienced The Transformations Of Pregnancy, Abortion, Birth, And CareGiving, She Began To Doubt The Truth Of That Dichotomy. In An Effort To Better Understand Her Experiences, She Found Herself Reaching To The Premodern Past, A Period When The Strange Rubbed Up Against The Strikingly Recognizable: When People Accepted Both Levitation And The Smallpox Vaccine, Witchcraft And Universal Gravitation; A Time When Understandings Of The Body And Its Capacity For Thought Were More Expansive, And More Unruly.Structured As A Biography Of The AuthorS Own Body, From Girlhood And Adolescence, To Sex And Abortion, To Feeding And Caring For An Infant, To Her Experience Caring For Someone As They Were Dying, Erin Places Her Personal History Into A Deep Dialogue With The Premodern Past. She Explores The Relation Between Imagination And Gender, Between Maternal And Historical Subjectivity; She Positions Female Desire As A Practice With A Past, And Offers Gentler And More Forgiving Understandings Of Housekeeping, Pregnancy, Early Miscarriage, Abortion, Birth, Sleeplessness, And Breastfeeding.For Readers Of Amia SrinivasanS The Right To Sex, Cat BohannonS Eve, And Olivia LaingS Everybody, Presence Is A Unique Experiment In Historical Thinking And Embodied Knowledge; A Thoroughly Researched, Vibrant History Of WomenS Bodies, Expertise, And Work From A Major New Writer.
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