Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 seminar series Back

Event Date(s): 30th Nov 2013 - 30th Nov 2013

Location: Room 234, second floor, Senate House, Malet Street, University of London. WC1E 7HU

 

Published on: 14th Sep 2013

WSG’s friendly and informal seminar series is open to all.  For more information, please visit our website at www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk.

This seminar features the following speakers: 

Sarah Fox: Continuity and Tradition: the ‘peculiar rites and customs’ of childbirth in the Long
Eighteenth Century.
Jennifer Evans: ‘They report that the smel of Civet, Ambergreese,
Musk … maketh Women apt to Conception’: Diagnosing and Treating female

barrenness with aromatics in early modern England.

 

Joint panel ‘Bodily and spiritual health in seventeenth-century women’s writings’, comprising:
Rachel Adcock:Dialogues between Flesh and Spirit: Bodily and spiritual health in
mid-seventeenth-century female writings.
Sara Read: Elizabeth Clinton’s Nurserie: Bodily and Spiritual Health as a Literary Theme.
Anna Warzycha: ‘Sinner Saved’: Gertrude More’s Therapeutic Confessions and Spiritual Exercises (1657).