Regulating menstruation : beliefs, practices, interpretations /
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001. |
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| Description: | xli, 292 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4449824 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Concepts and Definitions
- Part 1. Historical and Contemporary Studies In The West
- 1. Menstrual Catharsis and the Greek Physician
- 2. Colds, Worms, and Hysteria: Menstrual Regulation in Eighteenth-Century America
- 3. Menstrual Intervention in the Nineteenth-Century United States
- 4. Emmenagogues and Abortifacients in the Twentieth Century: An Issue of Ambiguity
- 5. Pharmacological Properties of Emmenagogues: A Biomedical View
- 6. Demography, Amenorrhea, and Fertility
- 7. Menstrual Regulation and the Pill
- Part 2. Anthropological Perspectives: Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America
- 8. The Meaning of Menstrual Management in a High-Fertility Society: Guinea, West Africa
- 9. The Blood That Links: Menstrual Regulation among the Bamana of
- 10. "Cleaning the Inside" and the Regulation of Menstruation in Southwestern Nigeria
- 11. Means, Motives, and Menses: Uses of Herbal Emmenagogues in Indonesia Terence
- 12. Regulating Menstruation in Matlab, Bangladesh: Women's Practices and Perspectives
- 13. Bloodmakers Made of Blood: Quechua Ethnophysiology of Menstruation
- 14. Midwives and Menstrual Regulation: A Guatemalan Case Study
- Contributors
- Index
