Victoria Louise Newton

Everyday Discourses of Menstruation (eBook, PDF)

Cultural and Social Perspectives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137487759
• Artikelnr.: 46922818

Autorenporträt

Inhaltsangabe

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Foreword; Richard Jenkins.- Chapter 1. The 'Folklore of Menstruation': Researching Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Experience.- Chapter 2. Periods: Historical and Cultural Interpretations of Menstruation.- Chapter 3. Positioning Periods in Context: Contemporary Discourses and Dilemmas.- Chapter 4. On the Blob: Young Adulthood and Menstrual Lore.- Chapter 5. Managing Menstruation: The Menarche and Status Passage.- Chapter 6. Talking about My Menstruation: A Generational Comparison.- Chapter 7. The Curse: Popular Histories and Cultural Knowledge.- Chapter 8. 'Auntie's Come to Tea': Menstrual Euphemism.- Chapter 9. Mentioning the Unmentionable: 'Only Joking...'.- Chapter 10. Closed for Maintenance: Backstage spaces, and Selling Shame.- Chapter 11. Conclusions: Keep Bleeding.

Rezensionen

"Based on original, empirical research and theoretical perspectives drawn from anthropology, cultural and gender studies and folklore, this is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary studies and to an understanding of the beliefs, norms and practices surrounding menstruation." (The Katharine Briggs Award 2016, Judges' comments on the short listed entries, November, 2016)