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Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England
1. Introduction: ‘Those Sweet and Benign Humours That Nature Sends Monthly’: Reading Menstruation and Vaginal Bleeding
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2. ‘What a Small Excess Is Called
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3. ‘Having the Benefit of Nature’: Menarche and Female Adolescence
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4. ‘Full Sixteen and Never Yet Had
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5. ‘Women’s Monthly Sickness’: Accounting for Menstruation
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6. ‘Wearing of the Double Clout’: Dealing with Menstrual Flow in Practice and in Religious Doctrine
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7. ‘The Flower of Virginity’: Hymenal Bleeding and Becoming a Woman
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8. The ‘Cleansing of the Flowers after the Birth’: Managing Pregnancy and Post-Partum Bleeding
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9. ‘Women Grieve to Thinke They Must Be Old’: Representations of Menopause
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10. Conclusion
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Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, History of Science, European History, Cultural History, World History, Global and Transnational History
- Author(s)
- Read, Sara
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Genders and Sexualities in History
- Page amount
- 260 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137355034
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-47003-7