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Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Early modern bodies, particularly menstruating and pregnant bodies,
were not stable signifiers. Menstruation and Procreation in Early
Modern France presents the first full-length discussion of
menstruation and its uncertain connections with embodied sex,
gender and reproduction in early modern France. Attitudes to
menstruation are explored in three inter-linked arenas: medicine,
moral theology and law across the sixteenth to the eighteenth
centuries. Drawing on a wide range of diverse sources, including
court records and private documents, the author uses case studies
to explore the relationship between the exceptional corporeality of
individuals and attempts to construct menstrual norms, reflecting
on how early modern individuals, lay or otherwise, grappled with
the enigma of menstruation. She analyzes how early modern men and
women accounted for the function, recurrence and appearance of
menstruation, from its role in maintaining health to the link
between other physiological and bodily processes, including those
found in both male and female bodies. She questions the assumption
that menstruation was exclusively associated with women by the
second half of the eighteenth century, arguing that whilst
sex-related, menstruation was not sex-specific even at the turn of
the nineteenth. Menstruation remains a contentious topic today.
This book is not, therefore, simply a study of periods in early
modern France, but is also of necessity an exploration about the
nature and constitution of historical evidence, particularly bodily
evidence and how historians use this evidence. It raises important
questions about the concept of certainty and about the value of
observation, testimony, expertise, the nature of language and the
construction of bodily truths - about the body as witness and the
body as evidence.
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