Men And Menstruation

Author : Chris Bobel,Inga T. Winkler,Breanne Fahs,Katie Ann Hasson,Elizabeth Arveda Kissling,Tomi-Ann Roberts
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1041 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811506147

Get Book

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies by Chris Bobel,Inga T. Winkler,Breanne Fahs,Katie Ann Hasson,Elizabeth Arveda Kissling,Tomi-Ann Roberts Pdf

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.

Author : David Linton
Publisher : Visual Communication
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Men
ISBN : 1433150417

Get Book

Men and Menstruation by David Linton Pdf

Though a biological characteristic, menstruation is also a complex social construction, one that men play an active role in creating via a process of "menstrual transactions." This book explores the means by which menstruation is given meaning through an examination of a wide variety of such transactions.

Author : David Linton
Publisher : Visual Communication
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Men
ISBN : 1433168723

Get Book

Men and Menstruation by David Linton Pdf

Though a biological characteristic, menstruation is also a complex social construction, one that men play an active role in creating via a process of "menstrual transactions." This book explores the means by which menstruation is given meaning through an examination of a wide variety of such transactions.

Author : Ian Hogbin
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478609001

Get Book

The Island of Menstruating Men by Ian Hogbin Pdf

Ian Hogbin belongs to anthropologys heroic age. He was a member of the brilliant between-the-wars generation that included Raymond Firth, Reo Fortune, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Hortense Powdermaker, all of whom pioneered modern field research in the insular South Pacific. The Island of Menstruating Men was a path-breaking exploration of gender in Wogeo when first published. Today it remains an important full-length study of a Melanesian religion, examining it in relation to other facets of culturemythology, beliefs about illness and death, growth and maturity, magic, social structure, and morality. It is an articulate, insightful examination of the meaning of tradition and of the integration of culture. It is also a captivating account of ethnocentrism and the Wogeos justification for it, exemplifying, in miniature, what appears to be one of the great problems of the human species.

Author : Lara Freidenfelds
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801898297

Get Book

The Modern Period by Lara Freidenfelds Pdf

Winner, 2010 Emily Toth Award for Best Book in Women’s Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association The Modern Period examines how and why Americans adopted radically new methods of managing and thinking about menstruation during the twentieth century. In the early twentieth century women typically used homemade cloth "diapers" to absorb menstrual blood, avoided chills during their periods to protect their health, and counted themselves lucky if they knew something about menstruation before menarche. New expectations at school, at play, and in the workplace, however, made these menstrual traditions problematic, and middle-class women quickly sought new information and products that would make their monthly periods less disruptive to everyday life. Lara Freidenfelds traces this cultural shift, showing how Americans reframed their thinking about menstruation. She explains how women and men collaborated with sex educators, menstrual product manufacturers, advertisers, physical education teachers, and doctors to create a modern understanding of menstruation. Excerpts from seventy-five interviews—accounts by turns funny and moving—help readers to identify with the experiences of the ordinary people who engineered these changes. The Modern Period ties historical changes in menstrual practices to a much broader argument about American popular modernity in the twentieth century. Freidenfelds explores what it meant to be modern and middle class and how those ideals were reflected in the menstrual practices and beliefs of the time. This accessible study sheds new light on the history of popular modernity, the rise of the middle class, and the relationship of these phenomena to how Americans have cared for and managed their bodies.

Author : Karen Houppert
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466813960

Get Book

The Curse by Karen Houppert Pdf

A provocative look at the way our culture deals with menstruation. The Curse examines the culture of concealment that surrounds menstruation and the devastating impact such secrecy has on women's physical and psychological health. Karen Houppert combines reporting on the potential safety problems of sanitary products--such as dioxin-laced tampons--with an analysis of the way ads, movies, young-adult novels, and women's magazines foster a "menstrual etiquette" that leaves women more likely to tell their male colleagues about an affair than brazenly carry an unopened tampon down the hall to the bathroom. From the very beginning, industry-generated instructional films sketch out the parameters of acceptable behavior and teach young girls that bleeding is naughty, irrepressible evidence of sexuality. In the process, confident girls learn to be self-conscious teens. And the secrecy has even broader implications. Houppert argues that industry ad campaigns have effectively stymied consumer debate, research, and safety monitoring of the sanitary-protection industry. By telling girls and women how to think and talk about menstruation, the mostly male-dominated media have set a tone that shapes women's experiences for them, defining what they are allowed to feel about their periods, their bodies, and their sexuality.

Author : Cathy McClive
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317097358

Get Book

Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France by Cathy McClive Pdf

Early modern bodies, particularly menstruating and pregnant bodies, were not stable signifiers. Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France presents the first full-length discussion of menstruation and its uncertain connections with embodied sex, gender and reproduction in early modern France. Attitudes to menstruation are explored in three inter-linked arenas: medicine, moral theology and law across the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Drawing on a wide range of diverse sources, including court records and private documents, the author uses case studies to explore the relationship between the exceptional corporeality of individuals and attempts to construct menstrual norms, reflecting on how early modern individuals, lay or otherwise, grappled with the enigma of menstruation. She analyzes how early modern men and women accounted for the function, recurrence and appearance of menstruation, from its role in maintaining health to the link between other physiological and bodily processes, including those found in both male and female bodies. She questions the assumption that menstruation was exclusively associated with women by the second half of the eighteenth century, arguing that whilst sex-related, menstruation was not sex-specific even at the turn of the nineteenth. Menstruation remains a contentious topic today. This book is not, therefore, simply a study of periods in early modern France, but is also of necessity an exploration about the nature and constitution of historical evidence, particularly bodily evidence and how historians use this evidence. It raises important questions about the concept of certainty and about the value of observation, testimony, expertise, the nature of language and the construction of bodily truths - about the body as witness and the body as evidence.

Author : Janice Delaney,Mary Jane Lupton,Emily Toth
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 0252014529

Get Book

The Curse by Janice Delaney,Mary Jane Lupton,Emily Toth Pdf

"In its hard headed, richly documented concreteness, it is worth a thousand polemics." -- New York Times, from a review of the first edition "The Curse deserves a place in every women's studies library collection." -- Sharon Golub, editor of Lifting the curse of Menstruation "A stimulating and useful book, both for the scholarly and the general reader." -- Paula A. Treichler, co-author of A Feminist Dictionary

Author : Aditi Gupta,Tuhin Paul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Menstruation
ISBN : OCLC:913431082

Get Book

Menstrupedia Comic by Aditi Gupta,Tuhin Paul Pdf

Author : Victoria Louise Newton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137487759

Get Book

Everyday Discourses of Menstruation by Victoria Louise Newton Pdf

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 : Maureen C. McHugh,Joan C. Chrisler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781440831775

Get Book

The Wrong Prescription for Women by Maureen C. McHugh,Joan C. Chrisler Pdf

This groundbreaking book challenges the medicalized approach to women's experiences including menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause and suggests that there are better ways for women to cope with real issues they may face. Before any woman diets, douches, botoxes, reduces, reconstructs, or fills a prescription for antidepressants, statins, hormones, menstrual suppressants, or diet pills, she should read this book. Contesting common medical practice, the book addresses the many aspects of women's lives that have been targeted as "deficient" in order to support the billion-dollar profits of the medical-pharmacological industry and suggests alternatives to these "remedies." The contributors—psychologists, sociologists, and health experts—are also gender experts and feminist scholars who recognize the ways in which gender is an important aspect of the human experience. In this eye-opening work, they challenge the marketing and "science" that increasingly render women's bodies and experiences as a series of symptoms, diseases, and dysfunctions that require treatment by medical professionals who prescribe pharmaceutical and surgical interventions. Each article in the book addresses the marketing of a specific "condition" that has been constructed in a way that convinces a woman that her body is inadequate or her experience and behavior are not good enough. Among the topics addressed are menstruation, menopause, pregnancy, post-partum adjustment, sexual desire, weight, body dissatisfaction, moodiness, depression, grief, and anxiety.

Author : Rachel Jones
Publisher : The Good Book Company
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784986223

Get Book

A Brief Theology of Periods (Yes, really) by Rachel Jones Pdf

What does the Bible say about periods? The average woman has 500 periods in her lifetime. And whether yours are mildly annoying, utterly debilitating or emotionally complicated, most of us have at one time or another asked: Why?! This warm, light-hearted, real, honest and at times surprising book gives a biblical perspective on menstruation, as well as a whole lot more. Beginning with periods, Rachel Jones takes readers on an adventure in theology, weaving together wide-ranging reflections on the nature of our bodies, the passing of time, the purpose of pain, and the meaning of life. One thing is for sure: you’ve never read a Christian book quite like this one. Whether you’re in need of hope and help, or are just downright curious, you’ll be refreshed and encouraged by this book. As Rachel puts it, “Whoever you are, my aim is that you reach the end of this book celebrating who God has made you, how God has saved you, and the fact that he speaks liberating and positive truth into all of life’s experiences (even periods)”.

Author : Meghan Kurts-Forrester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 064871571X

Get Book

A Man's Guide: Navigating the Mystery of the Menstrual Mood Swing by Meghan Kurts-Forrester Pdf

An excellent resource to put out some fires and rebuild those bridges Since a big chunk of the population is women who bleed, navigating the menstrual mood swing is a valuable resource for all men. Men working with women in their careers or studies. Single men open to a relationship. Men in long term relationships. Fathers with daughters. Men with sisters and female friends or flatmates. Meghan Kurts-Forrester takes us on an off-road journey into the cyclic nature of Women, and boy what a ride! As a mother, lover, friend and CEO she openly offers her insights into navigating the menstrual mood swing, intimacy and relating in all arena's. Since our biology is not going away anytime soon, the book suggests that we embrace the cyclic nature of women and work with it instead of resisting it. This book is filled with honesty, rawness and a bit of necessary humour. No matter where you are at with the women in your life there is gold to be found here. There are many paths to knowing ourselves and this is a fantastic tool to have in your kit. What men are saying about this book: This stuff is GOLD. I can't express enough how life-changing this has been for me and how much I feel it could benefit every man out there to know it! James Brown For deeper connection and intimacy this is the resource that I have at the top of my toolbox! I'm in! Scott Q The idea is that this benefits you directly. Whether it's deeper connection, more or better sex, or simply understanding her mood swings so you don't get your head bitten off, the end goal is that we all get along better with each other!

Author : J. Brooks-Gunn,A.C. Peterson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781489903549

Get Book

Girls at Puberty by J. Brooks-Gunn,A.C. Peterson Pdf

The publication of this volume at this time appears particularly auspi cious. Biological, psychological, and social change is greater during the pubertal years than at any other period since infancy. While the past two decades have witnessed a virtual explosion of productive research on the first years of life, until recently research on adolescence, and particularly on puberty and early adolescence, has lagged substantially behind. This book provides encouraging evidence that things are changing for the better. Considered separately, the individual chapters in this book include important contributions to our growing knowledge of the biological mechanisms involved in pubertal onset and subsequent changes, as well as of the psychological and social aspects of these changes, both as con sequences and determinants. In this regard, the book clearly benefits from the breadth of disciplines represented by the contributors, includ ing developmental endocrinology, adolescent medicine, pediatrics, psy chology, and sociology, among others.

Author : Breanne Fahs
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438462141

Get Book

Out for Blood by Breanne Fahs Pdf

Frames menstruation as a site of resistance, defiance, and shamelessness, showcasing the work of those who fight back against shame and silence. Winner of the 2017 Distinguished Publication Award presented by the Association for Women in Psychology Transporting the reader to worlds in which Komodo dragons prey on menstruating women, artists prowl the streets of Spain in blood-stained pants, and the myths of women bleeding in synchrony with each other are drawn and redrawn, these eleven essays on menstruation and resistance evoke thought-provoking tensions between silence and confrontation, shame and rebellion, and compliance and disobedience. Fusing together gender and feminist theory, critical body studies, political activism, and menstrual anarchy, Breanne Fahs illuminates the troubling omissions of menstrual coming-of-age narratives in the museum, the outdated terminology of “feminine hygiene,” and the moral panics about blood that erupts from in and outside of our bathrooms, classrooms, and cell phones. Borrowing from a multitude of voices—single moms, trans teenagers, zine makers, menstrual artists, college students, tour guides, French philosophers, and culture jammers—Fahs forcefully argues for a new culture of menstruation, one where the joys, rhythms, and controversies of menstrual cycles collides with the defiant, shameless, and bold new possibilities of menstrual resistance. Breanne Fahs is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Performing Sex: The Making and Unmaking of Women’s Erotic Lives, also published by SUNY Press, Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol), and the coeditor (with Mary L. Dudy and Sarah Stage) of The Moral Panics of Sexuality.