Books by Helen King

In the 21st century a child needs to be confident and articulate, in both speaking and writing. This book shows you how to empower your child with language.

By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex.

Looking at the competition and collaboration among different groups of men involved in childbirth, and between men and women, this work demonstrates that arguments about history were as important as arguments about the merits of different designs of forceps.