{"title":"Erin Maglaque","description":"\u003cp\u003eErin Maglaque’s works delve deeply into the nuances of personal experience, offering heartfelt reflections that resonate with readers seeking genuine connection. Her writing gently explores themes of identity, memory, and the subtle moments that shape our understanding of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the \u003cem\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e tradition, her books invite readers into intimate narratives where presence and self-awareness illuminate the human journey. Expect prose that is both contemplative and evocative, capturing the delicate balance between past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"presence-by-erin-maglaque-9781787336803","title":"Presence","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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\u003cem\u003eA work of remarkable archival scholarship... extraordinary\u003c\/em\u003e Harriet Baker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIlluminating and brave\u003c\/em\u003e Alison Light\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA wonderful history... intimate, fascinating and touching\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003ePresence\u003c\/em\u003e points towards a radical new way of understanding our bodies today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn important, original contribution to modern feminist writing about the body\u003c\/em\u003e Gabriel Weston\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImmersive, revelatory and astonishing\u003c\/em\u003e Sophie Gilbert\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47648328679660,"sku":"9781787336803","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781787336803-presence.jpg?v=1779256648"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/erin-maglaque.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}