Women's bodies: an unreliable history
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🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 1:06.2 | It excludes vehicles and business sellers. Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC |
| 1:19.1 | History magazine. |
| 1:21.1 | Female anatomy and the ideas surrounding it, from breastfeeding to virginity, can still cause contention today. |
| 1:29.4 | From the original Pandora myth to intact Hyman's being used as evidence in courts of law, |
| 1:35.5 | Professor Helen King takes Lauren Good on a journey through the ever-changing cultural history of women's bodies. |
| 1:42.5 | Thanks so much for joining me today to discuss your new book, |
| 1:46.2 | Immaculate Forms, uncovering the history of women's bodies. Firstly, Helen, what made you decide to |
| 1:52.5 | write it? Well, I've been working on a history of the female body for decades now, and I've |
| 1:58.4 | never really put it all together into a book that was accessible for a |
| 2:01.8 | general reader. And I do want people to hear this because I think history is really exciting, |
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