Bakhtin finds in Rabelais a "materiality of the baroque body" (36)
Rabelais describes the body that "people in the late Middle Ages experiences and perceived: a body that exuded exuberantly, broke all bounds, overflowed, and swept others along in its celebration of life" (Duden's summation, 178)
"How different were the women of Eisenach: wretched, stagnating, miserly (the richer ones), and cramped up--this is how they experience themselves, helpless in their suffering bodies, which were supposed to flow but did not. The agony of experiencing an objectified body had begun." (also 178)