Eve’s Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the WestHarvard University Press, 1997 - 341 strani In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John M. Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility. In Eve’s Herbs, Riddle explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times? |
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A Womans Secret | 8 |
The Herbs Known to the Ancients | 33 |
Ancient and Medieval Beliefs | 62 |
From Womancraft to Witchcraft 12001500 | 89 |
Witches and Apothecaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | 124 |
The Broken Chain of Knowledge | 165 |
The Womb as Public Territory | 204 |
Eves Herbs in Modern America | 226 |
Epilogue | 255 |
Notes | 259 |
Index | 329 |
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