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Periods, fertility & childbirth: a pre-modern history

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Is There Any Ways of Treating Period Pain?

How did most people think that babies were made and grown inside the body? Well, there's two main theories, and often they get sort of mixed up in a book. One is male and female seed meet on equal ground - then foetus develops within mother's body. The other model has very different relations where men provide the seed and women provide the raw material. But i think both are stories that people are telling about what's going on inside the wombthat nobody really knows there. They're narratives that are really about the relationships of men and women, told in miniature,. imagined within the womb as like a little theatre.

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