Eve's Herbs Free

Author: John M. Riddle
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 067427024X

Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West

In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John 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. Get Eve's Herbs diet books 2013 for free.
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? Beginning with the testimony of a young woman brought before the Inquisition in France in 1320, Riddle asks what women knew about regulating fertility with herbs and shows how the new intellectual, religious, and legal climate of the early modern period tended to Check Eve's Herbs our best diet books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

Eve's Herbs Free

n 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? Beginning with the testimony of a young woman brought before the Inquisition in France in 1320, Riddle asks what women knew about regulating fertility with herbs and shows how the new intellectual, religious, and legal climate of the early modern period tended to

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