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Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body by Erin Maglaque Groundswell Speaker 2024 magical realist family saga thatAn immersive hidden history of the female body, with radical implications for how we understand our bodies today. Sex and abortion, pregnancy and birth, feeding and rocking and washing: these are embodied practices with a deep past. Yet the history of the female body remains largely unknown even unimagined. Combining memoir with archival research, from fragments in medical texts, trial transcripts, legal treatises, prayerbooks, letters, and diaries,