Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body by Erin Maglaque Groundswell Speaker 2024 The Green Kingdom is perfect

The Green Kingdom is perfect for fans of the Greenwild series

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Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body by Erin Maglaque Groundswell Speaker 2024 The Green Kingdom is perfectAn immersive hidden history of the female body, with radical implications for how we understand our bodies today. Sex 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. Combining memoir with archival research, from fragments in medical texts, trial transcripts, legal treatises, prayerbooks, letters, and diaries,