Menstruation and the female body in early-modern England /

"In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as the key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate the blood level in the female body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. In this book, Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from p...

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Main Author:	Read, Sara, 1969- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:	Genders and sexualities in history.
Subjects:	Menstruation > England > History. Menstruation in literature. Body image in women > England > History. Medicine > England > History. Electronic books.
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