Output details
30 - History
University of Durham
Article title
Engendrer le tabou. L’interprétation du lévitique 15, 18-19 et 20-18 et de la menstruation sous l’ancien régime.
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Annales de demographie historique
Article number
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Volume number
125
Issue number
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First page of article
165
ISSN of journal
0066-2062
Year of publication
2013
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This article criticises the traditional representation of early-modern elite male attitudes towards menstruation as misogynist, arguing for a fuller and more subtle analysis. It develops the heuristic application of ‘taboo’ to the analysis of one of the key sources of elite religious attitudes to menstruation: Leviticus 15, 18:19 and 20:18. It compares linguistic changes in the expression of menstrual taboos found in Leviticus in 35 Catholic and Protestant Bibles published from 1530 to 1768 and in 22 contemporary dictionaries, refuting the idea that their translators were misogynistic.
