Regulating menstruation : beliefs, practices, interpretations / edited by Etienne van de Walle and Elisha P. Renne.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2001.

xli, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Menstrual catharsis and the Greek physician / Etienne van de Walle -- Colds, worms, and hysteria: menstrual regulation in eighteenth-century America / Susan E. Klepp -- Menstrual interventions in the nineteenth-century United States / Janet Farrell Brodie -- Emmenagogues and abortifacients in the twentieth century: an issue of ambiguity / Gigi Santow -- Pharmacological properties of emmenagogues: a biomedical view / Stefania Siedlecky -- Demography, amenorrhea, and fertility / Ina Warriner -- Menstrual regulation and the pill / Linda S. Potter -- The meaning of menstrual management in a high-fertility society: Guinea, West Africa / Elise Levin -- The blood that links: menstrual regulation among the Bamana of Mali / Sangeetha Madhavan and Aisse Diarra -- "Cleaning the inside" and the regulation of menstruation in southwestern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- Means, motives, and menses: uses of herbal emmenagogues in Indonesia / Terence H. Hull and Valerie J. Hull -- Regulating menstruation in Matlab, Bangladesh: women's practices and perspectives / Heidi Bart Johnston -- Bloodmakers made of blood: Quechua ethnophysiology of menstruation / Patricia J. Hammer -- Midwives and menstrual regulation: a Guatemalan case study / Sheila Cosminsky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.