Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France

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.

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• História da Europa
• Início da história moderna: c 1450/1500 a c 1700
• História social e cultural
• Estudos de gênero: as mulheres

historical medical epistemology;gendered embodiment;reproductive health history;legal perspectives on bodily evidence;moral theology of sexuality;menstrual irregularity analysis;early modern menstrual discourse France