{"product_id":"pre-order-presence-a-hidden-history-of-the-female-body-erin-maglaque","title":"PRE-ORDER Presence: a Hidden History of the Female Body - Erin Maglaque","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished 24 June 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGet tickets \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/collectedbooks.co.uk\/products\/erin-maglaqie-presence-a-hidden-history-of-the-female-body-wednesday-24-june-7-30pm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Event tickets - Erin Maglaque in conversation\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere \u003c\/a\u003efor our event with Erin Maglaque, in conversation about \u003cem\u003ePresence\u003c\/em\u003e - Wednesday 24 June, 7.30pm!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn immersive hidden history of the female body, with radical implications for how we understand our bodies today...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSex and abortion, pregnancy and birth, feeding and rocking and washing: these are embodied practices with a deep past. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYet 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, Erin Maglaque assembles a chorus of women’s voices from the pre-modern past. We encounter a vanished past both strikingly recognisable and strange, when ideas of the female body, sexuality, work and pleasure were more varied, more unruly, and sometimes freer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the invisible history of the female body – birthing, caring, working, desiring. Reaching deep into the shared history of women’s lives, \u003cem\u003ePresence \u003c\/em\u003epoints towards a radical new way of understanding our bodies today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collected","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56831262458236,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5662\/2637\/files\/9781787335356.jpg?v=1780395430","url":"https:\/\/collectedbooks.co.uk\/products\/pre-order-presence-a-hidden-history-of-the-female-body-erin-maglaque","provider":"Collected","version":"1.0","type":"link"}