Laura Gowing is professor of early modern history at

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.Professor Laura Gowing.
King's College, London. Retrieved 17 May 2015. She received her PhD from Royal Holloway, London.

Research

Gowing's research relates to early modern England, women, gender, the body, sexuality, crime, disorder, and London. In ''Common Bodies'' (2003), Gowing critiqued the approaches of

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to the history of the body in the early modern period in a book that was positively reviewed in ''The Guardian''.Pointing the finger.
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Selected publications

*''Ingenious Trade'', Cambridge University Press, 2021. *"The manner of submission: gender and demeanour in 17th century London", ''

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'' 10:1 (2013). *''Gender Relations in Early Modern England'', (Pearson Longman, 2012) *"Women’s bodies and the making of sex in seventeenth-century England", '' Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society'' 37: 4 (2012), pp. 813–822. ISSN 0097-9740. *"The politics of women's friendship in early modern England", in Gowing, Hunter and Rubin (eds), 2005, ''Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe 1300-1800'', pp. 131–149

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*''Common bodies : women, touch and power in seventeenth-century England''. New Haven, Conn.; London:

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, 2003. *''Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London''. Oxford:

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, 1996.

References

External links

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