Bodies in Bell in Campo

Except for Madam Jantil (who begins to exhibit contemptu mundi as the play progresses), most of the women in Bell in Campo refer to their own bodies, the bodies of the play's men, or their participation in the "body" of the female army. Madams Whiffell and Ruffell express their disinterest in following their husbands to war in distinctly bodily terms; war would "shatter...small bones to pieces" or cause Ruffell to "be powdered up with dust" (or worse yet, "stew'd to a gelly"). Concerns of the body enter into several of Lady Victoria's justifications for the military laws of Scene 11. The female soldiers will acclimatize themselves to wearing armor so that unlike the male soldiers, they won't suffer from the waste-cutting, body-pinching, and thigh-binding effects of occasionally wearing armor. Victoria bans "strong Drinks" and "nourishing Meats," so that the senses aren't locked up against signs of enemy approach. She also bans the army from overnighting at Garrison towns, which "beget a tenderness of Bodies and laziness of limbs." What is the purpose of the body imagery in the play? Could it be metatheatrical in nature, since female actors were performing on the English stage for the first time? This goes beyond the scope of the class, but how does Cavendish's treatment of bodies differ in The Blazing World?