Format:
Online-Ressource (261 p)
ISBN:
9781137355027
Series Statement:
Genders and Sexualities in History
Content:
In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood levels in the body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from plays and poems, to life-writing, and compares these texts with the medical theories
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on spelling conventions; Introduction: 'Those Sweet and Benign Humours That Nature Sends Monthly': Reading Menstruation and Vaginal Bleeding; 1 'What a Small Excess Is Called Flooding': The Language of Menstruation and Transitional Bleeding; 2 'Having the Benefit of Nature': Menarche and Female Adolescence; 3 'Full Sixteen and Never Yet Had Those': Representations of Early or Delayed Menarche; 4 'Women's Monthly Sickness': Accounting for Menstruation
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5 'Wearing of the Double Clout': Dealing with Menstrual Flow in Practice and in Religious Doctrine6 'The Flower of Virginity': Hymenal Bleeding and Becoming a Woman; 7 The 'Cleansing of the Flowers after the Birth': Managing Pregnancy and Post-Partum Bleeding; 8 'Women Grieve to Thinke They Must Be Old': Representations of Menopause; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137355034
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137355027
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England
Language:
English
Keywords:
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