Books written by Laura Gowing

  • Gender Relations in Early Modern England
    Gender Relations in Early Modern England

    ... 139, 142 gentlewomen 11—3, 47, 86, 88, 112, 126—7 gossip 75 gossips 23, 28, 39, 60,65, 107, 110 Gouge, William 34, 46, 123—4 government 51, 53—5, 61, 68—79 great houses 9, 31, 40, 64 greensickness 17, 25 Griffin, Edith 140 guild 42, ...

  • Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London
    Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London

    The first examination of women's experiences, and gender relations, in the diverse, mobile society of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London.

  • Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-century England
    Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-century England

    Using letters, popular literature, and detailed legal records from courts that were obsessively concerned with regulating morals, the book recaptures 17th-century popular understandings of sex and reproduction.

  • Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England
    Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England

    82 Mary Earnley , in 1670 , fell into fits of sickness in which she clapped her thighs and cried out ' that Wilkinson's wife pricked her with pins , and said ' Wilkinson's wife run a spit into her ? 83 In Exeter , in one of the latest ...

  • Gender Relations in Early Modern England
    Gender Relations in Early Modern England

    ... she calling there for a boat to go down westward a waterman looking out of a window said itwastoo early and she said shewouldstay until it were time and that he would go. Whereuponthe waterman came downand opened hisdoor and she ...

  • Ingenious Trade
    Ingenious Trade

    Hinton and Oswin were bound to John Spillett in 1691 and 1692, and both later became free. Over the period 1680–99, John and Frances Spillett took on at least eleven apprentices, five of them girls (Figure 3.5).

  • Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London
    Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London

    The first examination of women's experiences and gender relations in the diverse, mobile society of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London.

  • Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London
    Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London

    ... ). John Wareing, Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618–1718 (Oxford University Press, 2016), 263. 18 Virginia, this 'contributed to a specious logic' that privileged indentured 148 Ingenious Trade.

  • Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England: A Sourcebook
    Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England: A Sourcebook

    ... Women's Work in a Changing World , 1300-1600 , Oxford , Oxford University Press , 1996 ; a fuller bibliography on women's work follows Chapter 3 . 14 Amy Louise Erickson , Women and Property in Early Modern England , London , Routledge ...

  • Women's Worlds in Seventeenth Century England: A Sourcebook
    Women's Worlds in Seventeenth Century England: A Sourcebook

    Drawing on unpublished, archival materials, Women's Worlds explores the everyday lives of ordinary early modern women, including their: * experiences of work, sex, marriage and motherhood * beliefs and spirituality * political activities * ...