Download or read book Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World written by Kimberly Anne Coles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the essays in this volume capture the body in a particular attitude: in distress, vulnerability, pain, pleasure, labor, health, reproduction, or preparation for death. They attend to how the body’s transformations affect the social and political arrangements that surround it. And they show how apprehension of the body – in social and political terms – gives it shape.