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Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England

Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England

Hardcover

Series: Genders and Sexualities in History

General World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1137355026
ISBN13: 9781137355027
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 31 2013
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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