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Author Read, Sara, 1969-
Title Menstruation and the female body in early modern England / Sara Read.
Publisher Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.


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Contents 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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ISBN 9781137355034
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Author Read, Sara, 1969-
Series Genders and sexualities in history
Genders and sexualities in history.
Subject Menstruation in literature.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
Descript xi, 248 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Content text
still image
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents 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
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781137355034
Author Read, Sara, 1969-
Series Genders and sexualities in history
Genders and sexualities in history.
Subject Menstruation in literature.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 17th century.

Subject Menstruation in literature.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
Descript xi, 248 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Content text
still image
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents 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
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781137355034
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