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	Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts 3.86 avg rating — 98 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hippocrates' Woman 3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1998 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Hysteria Beyond Freud by Sander L. Gilman, Helen King (Goodreads Author), Roy Porter 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	WELLCOME COLLECTION Immaculate Forms Uncovering the History of Womens Bodies. 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Helen King liked Megan Husted's review of Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts: "“Our bodies exist, and have always existed, in history. It is impossible to experience them in a vacuum, as culture clamors to tell us what we are as women, what we can and can’t do, and how our bodies and their supposed limitations are responsible f" Read more of this review »
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Helen King rated a book it was amazing The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading by Sam Leith	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A very readable and comprehensive history of books aimed at (mostly) children, including picture books. Leith made me see connections I’d missed, contexts I’d not known about, and patterns which helped me to think again about some of my favourite boo ...more
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In terms of readability, I started this after breakfast and finished it before dinner. And I have immediately ordered the sequel! I like Miller very much as a detective and his fondness for puns made this a funny book as well as a crime novel. Well-p ...more
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Had major difficulty putting this down. I love the main characters and this was a very engrossing story. But wow, totally had not expected that twist at the end!!!
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I finally got to this one in my To Read pile - having waited 13 years for this sequel, it took me about 40 pages to get into it, but after that I was whizzing through. Absolutely brilliant, lovely to be back in this world again, and to have some (but ...more
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