"The idealized bourgeois male body was constructed as an appropriating unit, an accumulator of privatized property, while the demonized/feminized body of the commons was a dangerously porous one, seeping into enclosed spaces, transgressing limits and boundaries. This delineation of the grotesque body of the people was underwritten by the active role of women in many anti-enclosure riots, an indication that rebellious women did not know their place (or perhaps knew it all too well)–both geographically and socially. In fact, during the years of the English Civil War, female rebellion, manifest in challenges to religious hierarchy and gender-roles, was directly linked to anti-enclosure riots. ‘The women in this country begin to rise,’ bemoaned one frightened commentator in 1642, ‘I wish you all to take heed of women, for this very vermin have pulled down an enclosure.‘"

— David McNally, Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism