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Menstruation and the female body in early-modern England /
"In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as the key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate the blood level in the female body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. In this book, Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Colección: | Genders and sexualities in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as the key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate the blood level in the female body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. In this book, Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from plays and poems, to life-writing, and compares these texts with the medical theories. Many of these literary representations show how early modern English women related to their bleeding bodies, both in their menstrual cycles and at other times of transition, from menarche to menopause. For example, how would a literate woman read about her body in the books which claimed to be guides for female health? How was menstruation presented to society in staged and printed works? As part of its attempt to recover the ways in which a woman in this era might have understood this aspect of her physiology, this book examines the key moments when menstruation and related changes were at the forefront of her experience of living in a female body"-- |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137355034 1137355034 9781137355027 1137355026 9781349470037 1349470031 |