Laura Gowing

Laura Gowing is professor of early modern history at King's College London.[1] 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 Thomas W. Laqueur and Michel Foucault to the history of the body in the early modern period[2] in a book that was positively reviewed in The Guardian.[3]

Selected publications
  • "The manner of submission: gender and demeanour in 17th century London", Cultural and Social History 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 [Chapter].
  • Common bodies : women, touch and power in seventeenth-century England. New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, 2003.
  • Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

References
  1. Professor Laura Gowing. King's College, London. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  2. "Never Knowingly Naked" David Wootton, London Review of Books, 15 April 2004. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  3. Pointing the finger. Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian, 4 October 2003. Retrieved 17 May 2015.



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