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,‘Full Sixteen and Never Yet Had ,: Representations of Early or Delayed Menarche, menstruate at a much earlier or later age, that was a cause for concern. This chapter moves on to explore the literary representations of early and delayed menarche within a society which associated this event with a change of status from a child to a potentially marriageable young woman, and consi

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,‘Women’s Monthly Sickness’: Accounting for Menstruation,cy and then lactation. This chapter analyses how people in early modern England accounted for menstruation. As well as this, it considers painful menstruation and its management. As was outlined in the Introduction, there were several competing medical models seeking to account for why and how menst

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,The ‘Cleansing of the Flowers after the Birth’: Managing Pregnancy and Post-Partum Bleeding,e relationship and secure the bloodline. As Laura Gowing has asserted, ‘Fertility mattered enormously to women’s roles and to marriage. Pregnancy marked another stage in the transition from single woman to matron, and the rituals of childbirth brought a woman into the circle of married women and mot

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,‘Women Grieve to Thinke They Must Be Old’: Representations of Menopause,cultural status change, but it was seen as part of the ageing process, and as the end of fertility. The term ‘menopause’, as was explained in Chapter 1, was not in use at this time, but this transition was generally referred to as the end of the ‘flowers’, ‘courses’, or ‘terms’, according to the ind

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Conclusion,t of culture’ and sought to show how ‘social and material conditions made women’s bodies what they were’.. This study, similarly, has situated its analysis of the occasions of female transitional bleeding within the social and cultural framework of early modern society, seeking to show how understan

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2730-9479 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.978-1-349-47003-7978-1-137-35503-4Series ISSN 2730-9479 Series E-ISSN 2730-9487