Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.

283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Reforming the body -- The womb goes bad -- Protesting and preaching -- Henry Jessey, Sarah Wight, and the struggle to make women's bodies into knowledge -- Culpeper's radical book -- Reforming the family and refiguring the body in the English Revolution -- The restoration crisis in paternity.