Menstrual fictions: languages of medicine and menstruation, c. 1850–1930
(2000)
Journal Article
Strange, J.-M. (2000). Menstrual fictions: languages of medicine and menstruation, c. 1850–1930. Women's History Review, 9(3), 607-628. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020000200260
Gynaecological narratives of menstruation in the late nineteenth century placed woman firmly within the orbit of domesticity by virtue of her biology. In the rhetoric of medical ‘truths’, menstruation was defined as a ‘ldisability’, a physical ‘illne... Read More about Menstrual fictions: languages of medicine and menstruation, c. 1850–1930.