Immaculate Forms

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Journey into the complex medical and religious history of women's bodies from classical Greece to the modern day Throughout history, religious scholars, medical men and - occasionally - women themselves, have moulded thought on what 'makes' a woman. She has been called the weaker sex, the fairer sex, the purer sex, among many other monikers. Often, she has been defined simply as 'Not A Man'. Immaculate Forms examines all the ways in which medicine and religion have played a gatekeeping role over women's organs. For readers of Eve, Unwell Women, Medieval Bodies and Angela Saini's Inferior Helen King has been researching and teaching the history of the body for 40 years. The eminent expert on this subject, she is the only person poised to explore the symbiotic relationship between religion and medicine as, and their twinned history of gatekeeping women's bodies.