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"The Body, Gender and Culture"

16 Series Titles


The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838–1900

The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838–1900

1st Edition

By Gülhan Balsoy
January 20, 2016

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 uses previously untapped archival sources to examine these developments, arguing that these changes caused ...

The Prostitute's Body Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain

The Prostitute's Body: Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain

1st Edition

By Nina Attwood
January 20, 2016

Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic....

The Study of Anatomy in Britain, 1700–1900

The Study of Anatomy in Britain, 1700–1900

1st Edition

By Fiona Hutton
January 20, 2016

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 need for bodies over two centuries....

Women, Agency and the Law, 1300–1700

Women, Agency and the Law, 1300–1700

1st Edition

By Bronach Kane
January 20, 2016

Based on close readings of both public and private documents – court records, churchwarden accounts, depositions, diaries, letters and pamphlets – this collection of essays presents the largely untold story of non-elite women and their dealings with the law....

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