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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: 'Those Sweet and Benign Humours that Nature Sends Monthly': Reading Menstruation and Vaginal Bleeding
- What a small Excess is called Flooding': The Language of Menstruation and Transitional Bleedings
- Having the Benefit of Nature': Menarche and Female Adolescence
- 'Full sixteen and never yet had those': Representations of Early or Delayed Menarche
- 'Women's Monthly Sickness': Accounting for Menstruation
- 'Wearing of the Double Clout': Dealing with Menstrual Flow in Practice and in Religious Doctrine
- 'The Flower of Virginity': Hymenal Bleeding and Becoming a Woman
- The 'Cleansing of the Flowers after the Birth': Managing Pregnancy and Post-Partum Bleeding
- 'Women Grieve to Thinke they Must be Old': Representations of Menopause
- Conclusion.