The Social Construction of Menstruation
Author | : Natasha S. Carvalho |
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Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Natasha S. Carvalho |
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Total Pages | : 326 |
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Author | : Victoria Louise Newton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-05-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137487755 |
Menstruation is a topic which is both everyday and sensitive. From Leviticus to Pliny, to twentieth-century debates around 'menotoxin', to advertising and 'having the painters in', Victoria Newton's book offers a lively and innovative exploration of the social and cultural dimensions of menstruation. Through in-depth interviews with men and women, the book explores the many different ways in which this sensitive topic is spoken about in British culture. Looking specifically at euphemism, jokes, popular knowledge, everyday experience and folklore, the book provides original insights into the different discourses acting on the menstruating body and encourages debate about how these help to shape our everyday attitudes towards menstruation.
Author | : Chris Bobel |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 1041 |
Release | : 2020-07-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9811506140 |
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across the life course?” The chapters—diverse in content, form and perspective—establish Critical Menstruation Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical dimensions. This handbook is an unmatched resource for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and activists new to and already familiar with the field as it rapidly develops and expands.
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Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Laura Fingerson |
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Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2001 |
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Author | : Natasha S. Carvalho |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Judith Lorber |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2002-08-20 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0759116555 |
Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich and imaginative work.' In the extensively revised second edition of this successful text, the authors add chapters on disability and genital surgeries. They also update and expand their discussions of social epidemiology, AIDS, the health professions, PMS, menopause, and feminist health care. For a creative, feminist-oriented alternative to traditional texts on medical sociology, medical anthropology, and the history of medicine, this is an ideal choice.
Author | : Dana Michelle Smiles |
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Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Marriage customs and rites |
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Author | : Yuwei Neo |
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Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Menstruation |
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Author | : Chris Bobel |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2018-10-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319894145 |
The Managed Body productively complicates ‘menstrual hygiene management’ (MHM)—a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in the Global South. Bobel offers an invested critique of the complicated discourses of MHM including its conceptual and practical links with the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) development sector, human rights and ‘the girling of development.’ Drawing on analysis of in-depth interviews, participant observations and the digital materials of NGOs and social businesses, Bobel shows how MHM frames problems and solutions to capture attention and direct resources to this highly-tabooed topic. She asserts that MHM organizations often inadvertently rely upon weak evidence and spectacularized representations to make the claim of a ‘hygienic crisis’ that authorizes rescue. And, she argues, the largely product-based solutions that follow fail to challenge the social construction of the menstrual body as dirty and in need of concealment. While cast as fundamental to preserving girls’ dignity, MHM prioritizes ‘technological fixes’ that teach girls to discipline their developing bodies vis a vis consumer culture, a move that actually accommodates more than it resists the core problem of menstrual stigma.