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Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England
Genders and Sexualities in History
ISBN/EAN: 9781349470037
Umbreit-Nr.: 9487181
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xii, 248 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 01.01.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
- 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.
- Autorenportrait
- Sara Read is a Lecturer in English in the Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University.