
Periods, fertility & childbirth: a pre-modern history
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Do You Know How Much Knowledge You Have About Sex and Reproduction?
Do we have any sense of how much these were known and talked about by ordinary people, not medical people who were investigatin women's bodies? Say, if you were a young, unmarried woman, how much knowledge might you have about sex and reproduction? And can we tell, as historians? Oh, if only we could know more, but we know some things. We can figure some things out. But it is believed thatow, this is how it work all of these theories that we've discussed.
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