Titlebook: Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England; Sara Read Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limit

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,‘Wearing of the Double Clout’: Dealing with Menstrual Flow in Practice and in Religious Doctrine,a metaphor for human sin. This chapter, then, has two purposes: firstly, it analyses accounts of the ways in which women might have dealt with their menstrual blood flow; secondly, it examines the implications of the use of this biblical metaphor.

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,‘The Flower of Virginity’: Hymenal Bleeding and Becoming a Woman,on, and this has meant that there are no surviving accounts of women’s personal experiences to review. It is nevertheless revelatory to analyse and contrast the presentation of defloration and vaginal bleeding from medical works with each other and also with literary works by men and women.

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,Introduction: ‘Those Sweet and Benign Humours That Nature Sends Monthly’: Reading Menstruation and arche, defloration and childbirth — cause further changes in the body’.. Unlike modern medical assumptions, this Hippocratic taxonomy, as understood in the early modern period, explained that all aspects of vaginal bleeding, including the blood lost upon first intercourse and that lost after childbi

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,‘Having the Benefit of Nature’: Menarche and Female Adolescence,ted that as a girl grew, the channels in her body were opened to make ‘a way through and a way outside’; as part of the growth to maturity, menarche was considered to be the first transitional bleeding.

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,‘Women’s Monthly Sickness’: Accounting for Menstruation,ons about the materiality of the body’.. By setting the surviving personal or more conventionally literary material in the context of medical writing, this book evaluates the likely impact of theoretical posturing on the understanding of this physiological function, providing some answers to the iss

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,The ‘Cleansing of the Flowers after the Birth’: Managing Pregnancy and Post-Partum Bleeding,r, post-partum bleeding was considered to be analogous to menstruation and so carried with it assumptions about the ways in which women ought to behave if bleeding was occurring. Antenatal bleeding was also associated with grave implications for the outcome of the pregnancy and the potential disrupt

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Sara ReadMethods and Protocols. will aid scientists seeking to delve deeper into our own biology through the medium of other mammalian cells and proteins.978-1-4939-6160-3978-1-61779-352-3Series ISSN 1064-3745 Series E-ISSN 1940-6029