‘A Crisis of Transition’: Menstruation and the Psychiatrisation of the Female Lifecycle in 19th-Century Edinburgh
Examining how the female body and lifecycle were constructed within 19th-century Scottish psychiatry, and the wider significance of such portrayals, this article situates the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act within a much longer history that presents menstruation as a problem. We high...
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Open Library of Humanities
2022-03-01
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| Series: | Open Library of Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/6350/ |