Menstruation and the female body in early-modern England
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations.
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English
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9781137355034 (e-book)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-242) and index.
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"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 plays and poems, to life-writing, and compares these texts with the medical theories. Many of these literary representations show how early modern English women related to their bleeding bodies, both in their menstrual cycles and at other times of transition, from menarche to menopause. For example, how would a literate woman read about her body in the books which claimed to be guides for female health? How was menstruation presented to society in staged and printed works? As part of its attempt to recover the ways in which a woman in this era might have understood this aspect of her physiology, this book examines the key moments when menstruation and related changes were at the forefront of her experience of living in a female body"--,Provided by publisher.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Read, S. (2013). Menstruation and the female body in early-modern England . Palgrave Macmillan.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Read, Sara, 1969-. 2013. Menstruation and the Female Body in Early-modern England. Palgrave Macmillan.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Read, Sara, 1969-. Menstruation and the Female Body in Early-modern England Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Read, Sara. Menstruation and the Female Body in Early-modern England Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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