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Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body

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"[A] soulful, moving, sometimes cacophonous account of European women’s experiences and interior lives from about 1500 to 1800."—Mattie Kahn, The New York Times Book Review

A vibrant history of women’s bodies, expertise, and work from a major new writer—stylish, revelatory, and liberating.


Today, we understand the mind and the body to be distinct; that the mind exercises control over the flesh. But as Erin Maglaque experienced the transformations of pregnancy, abortion, birth, and care-giving...