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Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
Series: Genders and Sexualities in History
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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.
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