The bawdy politic in Stuart England, 1660-1714
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"With this original study, Melissa Mowry makes a strong contribution to a provocative inter-disciplinary conversation about an important and influential sub genre: seventeenth-century political pornography."
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"The book further advances our understanding of pornography's importance in seventeenth-century England by extending its investigation beyond the realm of cultural rhetoric into the realm of cultural practice. In addition to the satires which previous scholars have discussed in this context, Mowry brings to light hitherto unexamined pornographies as well as archival texts that reveal the ways in which the satires helped to shape the social policies endured by prostitutes and bawds. Her study includes substantial archival evidence of prostitution from the Middlesex Sessions and the Bridewell Courtbooks."
"Carefully grounded in original research, The Bawdy Politic is a cultural study with broad implications for the way we understand the historical constructions and legal deployments of women's sexuality."—Jacket.
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