The body and botany: "the first step toward the brothel"

• Autores: Helen King
• Localización: Gynecia: Studies on Gynaecology in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Texts / coord. por Cristina Santos Pinheiro, Gabriel A.F. Silva, Rui Carlos Fonseca, Bernardo Machado Mota, Joaquim Pinheiro, 2022, ISBN 9789723619775, págs. 11-26
• Idioma: inglés
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  • From menstruation as “the flowers” to the young girl on the brink of sexual experience as “blooming”, the use of floral imagery for the female body has a long history, crossing both medical and popular texts and covering both the processes of generation and the anatomy of the female organs. By concentrating on three self-help texts from the late nineteenth century, this paper examines the different uses of floral imagery written by women, for women.