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Publication of Jane Sharp’s The Midwives Book: Or the Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered, the first book on midwifery by a woman. In content it reproduced much of Culpeper’s work, while emphasizing “the importance of female sexual pleasure, providing details of ‘the clitoris [which] . . . makes women lustful and take delight in copulation’” (Skuse, 167).