{"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\/products\/presence-by-erin-maglaque-9781787336803","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}