Cathy Mcclive

Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France

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Produktbeschreibung

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 France. It destabilizes long-standing assumptions about the 'gendering' of menstruation and raises important questions about the nature of historical evidence and bodily truths.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780754666035
• ISBN-10: 0754666034
• Artikelnr.: 44606896

Autorenporträt

Cathy McClive is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at Durham University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: blood, menses and the myth of 'menstrual misogyny'
Leviticus and the problem of sex during genital fluxes
Menstruation, conception and the timely use of marriage
'I await my rules which do not arrive': menstrual regularity and irregular menstruation
Detecting and proving pregnancy
Menstrual time and the moons of pregnancy
Bleeding hermaphrodites and menstruating men
Conclusions
Select bibliography
Index.