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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822419003321

Autore

Read S

Titolo

Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England / / by S. Read

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013

ISBN

1-349-47003-1

1-137-35503-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9479

Classificazione

HIS015000HIS037090HIS054000MED039000

Disciplina

612.6/62

Soggetti

Great Britain—History

Social history

History

Europe—History

Civilization—History

World history

History of Britain and Ireland

Social History

History of Science

European History

Cultural History

World History, Global and Transnational History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction: 'Those Sweet and Benign Humours that Nature Sends Monthly': Reading Menstruation and Vaginal Bleeding. -- 2. What a small Excess is called Flooding': The Language of Menstruation and Transitional Bleedings. -- 3. Having the Benefit of Nature': Menarche and Female Adolescence. -- 4. 'Full sixteen and never yet had those': Representations of Early or Delayed Menarche -- 5. 'Women's Monthly Sickness': Accounting for Menstruation -- 6. 'Wearing of the Double Clout': Dealing with Menstrual Flow in Practice and in Religious Doctrine. -- 7. 'The Flower



of Virginity': Hymenal Bleeding and Becoming a Woman. -- 8. The 'Cleansing of the Flowers after the Birth': Managing Pregnancy and Post-Partum Bleeding. -- 9. 'Women Grieve to Thinke they Must be Old': Representations of Menopause. -- 10. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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.