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'''Laura Gowing''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} is professor of [[History:Early modern period|early modern]] history at [[Organization:King's College London|King's College London]]<ref name=Kings>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/people/staff/Academic/gowingl/index.aspx Professor Laura Gowing.] King's College, London. Retrieved 17 May 2015.</ref> where she works on women’s and gender history. She received her PhD from [[Organization:Royal Holloway, University of London|Royal Holloway]], London, supervised by Lyndal Roper, where she was subsequently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. She lectured at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Essex before King’s, and is one of the editors of History Workshop Journal. Gowing was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Laura Gowing FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/laura-gowing-fba/ |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=The British Academy |language=en}}</ref>

==Research==
Gowing's research relates to early modern England, women, gender, the body, sexuality, crime, and London. Much of her work uses legal records as a source for the history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women, with a particular focus on language and the body. Her first book ''Domestic Dangers'' revealed high numbers of London women litigating and testifying about sex and marriage, arguing for a 'language of insult' that defined women through sexual reputation. In ''Common Bodies'' (2003), Gowing critiqued the approaches of Thomas W. Laqueur and [[Biography:Michel Foucault|Michel Foucault]] to the history of the body in the early modern period<ref>[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n08/david-wootton/never-knowingly-naked "Never Knowingly Naked"] David Wootton, ''London Review of Books'', 15 April 2004. Retrieved 17 May 2015.</ref> in a book that was positively reviewed in ''The Guardian''.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/04/featuresreviews.guardianreview23 Pointing the finger.] Kathryn Hughes, ''{{wipe|The Guardian}}'', 4 October 2003. Retrieved 17 May 2015.</ref>

==Selected publications==
*''Ingenious Trade'', Cambridge University Press, 2021.
*"The manner of submission: gender and demeanour in 17th century London", ''Cultural and Social History'' 10:1 (2013).
*''Gender Relations in Early Modern England'', (Pearson Longman, 2012, 2nd edition 2022)
*"Women’s bodies and the making of sex in seventeenth-century England", ''Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society'' 37: 4 (2012),  pp.&nbsp;813–822. ISSN 0097-9740.
*"The politics of women's friendship in early modern England", in Gowing, Hunter and Rubin (eds), 2005, ''Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe 1300-1800'', pp.&nbsp;131–149 [Chapter].
*''Common bodies : women, touch and power in seventeenth-century England''. New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, 2003.
*''Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London''. Oxford: [[Organization:Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press]], 1996.

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== External links ==
*[https://kcl.academia.edu/LauraGowing Laura Gowing at academia.edu]
*[http://www.historyextra.com/feature/my-favourite-historical-places-professor-laura-gowing My favourite historical places: Professor Laura Gowing.]



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