Menstruation and procreation in early modern France [electronic resource] / Cathy McClive.
Early modern bodies, particularly menstruating and pregnant bodies, were not stable signifiers. Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France presents the first full-length discussion of menstruation and its uncertain connections with embodied sex, gender and reproduction in early modern Franc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2016.
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| Series: | Women and gender in the early modern world.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Leviticus and the problem of sex during genital fluxes
- 2. Menstruation, conception and the timely use of marriage
- 3. I await my rules which do not arrive : menstrual regularity and irregular menstruation
- 4. Detecting and proving pregnancy
- 5. Menstrual time and the moons of pregnancy
- 6. Bleeding hermaphrodites and menstruating men.