04277nam 22008055 450 991079072510332120210308220945.01-349-47003-11-137-35503-410.1057/9781137355034(CKB)2550000001179697(EBL)1588750(SSID)ssj0001080594(PQKBManifestationID)11568352(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001080594(PQKBWorkID)11070523(PQKB)10682101(DE-He213)978-1-137-35503-4(OCoLC)864712428(MiAaPQ)EBC1588750(EXLCZ)99255000000117969720151205d2013 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMenstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England[electronic resource] /by S. Read1st ed. 2013.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2013.1 online resource (261 p.)Genders and Sexualities in History,2730-9479Description based upon print version of record.1-137-35502-6 1-306-28585-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-242) and index.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.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.Genders and Sexualities in History,2730-9479Great Britain—HistorySocial historyHistoryEurope—HistoryCivilization—HistoryWorld historyHistory of Britain and Irelandhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020Social Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000History of Sciencehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/731000European Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717000Cultural Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/723000World History, Global and Transnational Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/719000Great 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.612.6/62HIS015000HIS037090HIS054000MED039000bisacshRead Sauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1577935BOOK9910790725103321Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England3856918UNINA