Menstruation: A Cultural History

A. Shail

G. Howie

Ranging from Aristotle to twentieth-century gynaecology, contributions to this volume trace the semiotics of menstruation from magical act to evolutionary deficiency. The result is the first comprehensive historical study of how menstruation has been understood within various cultural traditions, with reference to political and social institutions, and medical and religious practices. Includes a guide for scholars on bibliographical and archival sources for the study of menstruation.

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Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: 'Talking your body's language': The Menstrual Materialisation of Sexed Ontology; A.Shail & G.Howie PART 1: SCIENCE AND MEDICINE Menses in the Corpus Hippocraticum ; L.Arata Menstruation in Aristotle's Concept of the Person; G.Hiltmann The Art and Science of Menstrual Balancing in Early Medieval China; S.Wilms Flowers, Poisons and Men: Menstruation in Medieval Western Europe; M.H.Green The Secrets of Women (c. 1300): A Medieval Perspective on Menstruation; B.Bildhauer Menstrual Knowledge and Medical Practice in Early Modern France, c. 1555-1761; C.McClive Menstruation and Sexual Difference in Early Modern Medicine; M.Stolberg 'I believe it to be a case depending on menstruation': Madness and Menstrual Taboo in British Medical Practice, c. 1840-1930; J-M.Strange Embryological and Agricultural Constructions of the Menstrual Cycle, 1890-1910; H.Blackman Of Sex, Nationalities and Populations: The Construction of Menstruation as a Patho-Physiology; Z.Meghani PART 2: MYTH AND CULTURE Menstrual Misogyny and Taboo: The Medusa, Vampire and the Female Stigmatic; M.Mulvey-Roberts The Swan Maiden's Flight Over Time: Rituals, Fairytales and Matriarchy; J.K.Thomas Menstruating Women/Menstruating Goddesses: Sites of Sacred Power in South India; D.E.Jenett Medieval Responsa Literature On Niddah : Perpetuations of Notions of Tumah ; H.Ner-David 'Let Him Pass for a Man': The Myth of Jewish Male Menstruation in The Merchant of Venice ; A.M.Balizet A Menstrual Lesson for Girls: Maria Edgeworth's "The Purple Jar"; H.Robbins 'A rag and a bone and a hank of hair': The Menstrual Background of "the Vampire"; A.Shail Masking Menstruation: The Emergence of Menstrual Hygiene Products in the United States; S.L.Vostral Blood, Laughter and the Medusa: The Gothic Heroine as Menstrual Monster; R.Munford PART 3: APPENDIX A Guide to Bibliographical and Archival Resources for the Study of the History of Menstruation; A.Shail Index

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LUIGI ARATA teaches at the scientific Lycée 'Arturo Issel' in Italy ARIANE M. BALIZET is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Minnesota, USA BETTINA BILDHAUER is Lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews, UK. HELEN BLACKMAN is a Research Fellow in Medical History at the University of Exeter, UK MONICA H. GREEN is Professor of History at Arizona State University, USA. GABRIELLE HILTMANN is Lecturer in Philosophy at Basel University, Switzerland DIANNE E. JENETT is core faculty in Humanities and Co-Director of the Women's Spirituality Master's Programme at New College of California in San Francisco and adjunct faculty in the Depth Psychology Master's Programme at Sonoma State University, USA CATHY MCCLIVE is currently researching medical expertise in early modern France on a Leverhulme Trust postdoctoral award at the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, France ZAHRA MEGHANI is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Michigan State University, USA MARIEMULVEY-ROBERTS is a Reader in Literary Studies at the School of English and Drama at the University of the West of England, UK REBECCA MUNFORD is a Lecturer in Literature, Culture and Theory at the University of Manchester, UK HAVIVA NER-DAVID is completing her doctorate, on Jewish menstrual ritual impurity, at Bar Ilan University, Israel HOLLIS ROBBINS is Assistant Professor of English at Millsaps College, USA MICHAEL STOLBERG is Professor of History of Medicine at the Universität Würzburg, Germany JULIE-MARIE STRANGE is Lecturer in Modern British History at University of Manchester, UK JACQUELINE K. THOMAS is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Texas at Austin, USA SHARRA L. VOSTRAL is Assistant Professor in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA SABINE WILMS is Senior Editor at Paradigm Publications in Taos, New Mexico, USA.