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‘Gushing Out Blood’: Defloration and Menstruation in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
John Cleland’s 1740s pornographic novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure repeatedly depicts and eroticises the act of defloration. As such it is a revealing illustration of what Ivan Bloch termed the ‘defloration mania’ of the eighteenth century. This article maps narrative events on to contemporary...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer US
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5938316/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28025753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10912-016-9426-0 |