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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9781137355034 (e-book)

ISBN 9781137355027 (hardback)

Genders and sexualities in history

Print version: Read, Sara. Menstruation and the female body in early-modern England. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 xii, 248 pages ; 23 cm. Genders and sexualities in history ISBN 9781137355027

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.

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