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Menstruation and the female body in early modern England

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: ‘Those Sweet and Benign Humours That Nature Sends Monthly’: Reading Menstruation and Vaginal Bleeding
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    Chapter 2 ‘What a Small Excess Is Called Flooding’ : The Language of Menstruation and Transitional Bleeding
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    Chapter 3 ‘Having the Benefit of Nature’: Menarche and Female Adolescence
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    Chapter 4 ‘Full Sixteen and Never Yet Had Those’ : Representations of Early or Delayed Menarche
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    Chapter 5 ‘Women’s Monthly Sickness’: Accounting for Menstruation
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    Chapter 6 ‘Wearing of the Double Clout’: Dealing with Menstrual Flow in Practice and in Religious Doctrine
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    Chapter 7 ‘The Flower of Virginity’: Hymenal Bleeding and Becoming a Woman
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    Chapter 8 The ‘Cleansing of the Flowers after the Birth’: Managing Pregnancy and Post-Partum Bleeding
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    Chapter 9 ‘Women Grieve to Thinke They Must Be Old’: Representations of Menopause
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    Chapter 10 Conclusion
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Chapter title
Introduction: ‘Those Sweet and Benign Humours That Nature Sends Monthly’: Reading Menstruation and Vaginal Bleeding
Chapter number 1
Book title
Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 2013
DOI 10.1057/9781137355034_1
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-47003-7, 978-1-137-35503-4
Authors

Sara Read, Read, Sara

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