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Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England
eBook - Genders and Sexualities in History
ISBN/EAN: 9781137355034
Umbreit-Nr.: 7337510
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 264 S., 3.22 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 31.10.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- 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.
- Kurztext
- 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.
- Autorenportrait
- Sara Read is a Lecturer in English in the Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University.