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Laura Gowing

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Gowing's research relates to early modern England, women, gender, the body, sexuality, crime, and London. Much of her work uses legal records as a source for the history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women, with a particular focus on language and the body. Her first book
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revealed high numbers of London women litigating and testifying about sex and marriage, arguing for a 'language of insult' that defined women through sexual reputation. In
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to the history of the body in the early modern period in a book that was positively reviewed in
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Common bodies : women, touch and power in seventeenth-century England
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where she works on women’s and gender history. She received her PhD from
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Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London
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This article about a British historian or genealogist is a
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My favourite historical places: Professor Laura Gowing.
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early modern
King's College London
Royal Holloway
Lyndal Roper
Fellow of the British Academy
Thomas W. Laqueur
Michel Foucault
Cultural and Social History
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Yale University Press
Oxford University Press
Professor Laura Gowing.
"Professor Laura Gowing FBA"
"Never Knowingly Naked"
London Review of Books
Pointing the finger.
The Guardian
Laura Gowing at academia.edu
My favourite historical places: Professor Laura Gowing.
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