Women's bodies in classical Greek science / by Lesley Dean-Jones.

In this book, Dean-Jones gives a close analysis of theories concerning women's bodies in such authors as the Hippocratics and Aristotle. She demonstrates the centrality of menstruation in classical theories of female physiology, pathology, and reproduction, and suggests that this had bothnegati...

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Main Author: Dean-Jones, Lesley (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, [1994]
Series:Clarendon paperbacks
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