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This study looks at the work and lives of four 17th-century Euro-American women: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Marie de l'Incarnation, Anne Bradstreet and Anne Hutchinson. It compares functionalist treatments of the body by these women, offering a new way to think of corporeality as a device in literary and religious expressions of modesty.Harvey, Tamara is the author of 'Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700', published 2008 under ISBN 9780754664529 and ISBN 075466452X.
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