Book ID: CBB000930580

Menstruation: A Cultural History (2005)

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Shail, Andrew (Editor)
Howie, Gillian (Editor)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: xiii + 298 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Apple, Rima D. (2009) Review of "Menstruation: A Cultural History". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (p. 125). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Shail, Andrew; Howie, Gillian (2005) Introduction: “Talking Your Body's Language”: The Menstrual Materialisations of Sexed Ontology. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Mulvey-Roberts, Marie (2005) Menstrual Misogyny and Taboo: The Medusa, Vampire and the Female Stigmatic. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 149). unapi

Chapter Thomas, Jacqueline (2005) The Swan Maiden's Flight Over Time: Rituals, Fairytales and Matriarchy. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 162). unapi

Chapter Jenett, Dianne E. (2005) Menstruating Women/Menstruating Goddesses: Sites of Sacred Power in South India. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 176). unapi

Chapter Ner-David, Haviva (2005) Medieval Responsa Literature On Niddah: Perpetuations of Notions of Tumah. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 188). unapi

Chapter Balizet, Ariane M. (2005) “Let Him Pass for a Man”: The Myth of Male Menstruation in The Merchant of Venice. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 200). unapi

Chapter Robbins, Hollis (2005) A Menstrual Lesson for Girls: Maria Edgeworth's “The Purple Jar”. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 213). unapi

Chapter Shail, Andrew (2005) “A Rag and a Bone and a Hank of Hair”: The Menstrual Background of “the Vampire”. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 225). unapi

Chapter Vostral, Sharra L. (2005) Masking Menstruation: The Emergence of Menstrual Hygiene Products in the United States. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 243). unapi

Chapter Munford, Rebecca (2005) Blood, Laughter and the Medusa: The Gothic Heroine as Menstrual Monster. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 259). unapi

Chapter Wilms, Sabine (2005) The Art and Science of Menstrual Balancing in Early Medieval China. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 38). unapi

Chapter Green, Monica H. (2005) Flowers, Poisons and Men: Menstruation in Medieval Western Europe. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 51). unapi

Chapter Bildhauer, Bettina (2005) The Secrets of Women (c. 1300): A Medieval Perspective on Menstruation. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 65). unapi

Chapter McClive, Cathy (2005) Menstrual Knowledge and Medical Practice in Early Modern France, c. 1555--1761. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 76). unapi

Chapter Stolberg, Michael (2005) Menstruation and Sexual Difference in Early Modern Medicine. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 90). unapi

Chapter Strange, Julie-Marie (2005) “I Believe It to Be a Case Depending on Menstruation”: Madness and Menstrual Taboo in British Medical Practice, c. 1840--1930. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 102). unapi

Chapter Blackman, Helen (2005) Embryological and Agricultural Constructions of the Menstrual Cycle, 1890--1910. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 117). unapi

Chapter Meghani, Zahra (2005) Of Sex, Nationalities and Populations: The Construction of Menstruation as a Patho-Physiology. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 130). unapi

Chapter Hiltmann, Gabrielle (2005) Menstruation in Aristotle's Concept of the Person. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 25). unapi

Chapter Arata, Luigi (2005) Menses in the Corpus Hippocraticum. In: Menstruation: A Cultural History (p. 13). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Esperanza, Anabella
Gurunluoglu, Aslin
Lauriello, Giuseppe
Sangduk Lee
Gurunluoglu, Raffi
Califano, Salvatore
Concepts
Medicine
Medicine and culture
Medicine and gender
Medicine and society
Medicine and religion
Menstruation
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Early modern
Modern
20th century
19th century
Places
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Rome (Italy)
Europe
China
United States
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