This book explores the experiences of people who struggled with fertility problems in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. Motherhood was central to early

An investigation into aphrodisiacs challenges pre-conceived ideas about sexuality during this period.

Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the "historic" STIs--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis--producing surprising new

Pathologies of Love examines the role of medicine in the debate on women, known as the querelle des femmes, in early modern France. Questions concerning women�

Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.