'Shall She Famish Then?'
Gutierrez, Nancy A.!['Shall She Famish Then?'](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/231/23113397/CHSBZCOP0323113397.jpg)
The conventional female role in early modern England was governed by male authority figures who could, if need be, decide a woman's fate. This study explores female food refusal during that period linking it to gender, human agency, communal social practices and institutional power.