The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies [Internet]

Sections

• Acknowledgments
• About the Cover: Beauty in Blood—A Macrophotographic Lens on Menstruation, Body Politics, and Visual Art
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Introduction: Menstruation as Lens—Menstruation as Opportunity
• I. Menstruation as Fundamental
  • 2. Introduction: Menstruation as Fundamental
  • 3. Bleeding in Public? Rethinking Narratives of Menstrual Management from Delhi’s Slums
  • 4. The Realities of Period Poverty: How Homelessness Shapes Women’s Lived Experiences of Menstruation
  • 5. Opinion: Prisons that Withhold Menstrual Pads Humiliate Women and Violate Basic Rights
  • 6. Bleeding in Jail: Objectification, Self-Objectification, and Menstrual Injustice
  • 7. Navigating the Binary: A Visual Narrative of Trans and Genderqueer Menstruation
  • 8. The Human Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities: Sterilization and Other Coercive Responses to Menstruation
  • 9. Personal Narrative: Let Girls Be Girls—My Journey into Forced Womanhood
  • 10. “I Treat My Daughters Not Like My Mother Treated Me”: Migrant and Refugee Women’s Constructions and Experiences of Menarche and Menstruation
  • 11. Menstruation and Religion: Developing a Critical Menstrual Studies Approach
  • 12. Personal Narrative: Out of the Mikvah, into the World
  • 13. Personal Narrative: Caste Is My Period
  • 14. Menstrual Taboos: Moving Beyond the Curse
  • 15. Transnational Engagements: Cultural and Religious Practices Related to Menstruation
• II. Menstruation as Embodied
  • 16. Introduction: Menstruation as Embodied
  • 17. The Menstrual Mark: Menstruation as Social Stigma
  • 18. The Menarche Journey: Embodied Connections and Disconnections
  • 19. Resisting the Mantle of the Monstrous Feminine: Women’s Construction and Experience of Premenstrual Embodiment
  • 20. Learning About What’s “Down There”: Body Image Below the Belt and Menstrual Education
  • 21. Living in Uncertain Times: Experiences of Menopause and Reproductive Aging
  • 22. The Womb Wanders Not: Enhancing Endometriosis Education in a Culture of Menstrual Misinformation
  • 23. Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) and the Myth of the Irrational Female
  • 24. The Sexualization of Menstruation: On Rape, Tampons, and ‘Prostitutes’
  • 25. (In)Visible Bleeding: The Menstrual Concealment Imperative
  • 26. Transnational Engagements: From Debasement, Disability, and Disaster to Dignity—Stories of Menstruation Under Challenging Conditions
• III. Menstruation as Rationale
  • 27. Introduction: Menstruation as Rationale
  • 28. If Men Could Menstruate
  • 29. Introducing Menstrunormativity: Toward a Complex Understanding of ‘Menstrual Monsterings’
  • 30. Empowered Bleeders and Cranky Menstruators: Menstrual Positivity and the “Liberated” Era of New Menstrual Product Advertisements
  • 31. “You Will Find Out When the Time Is Right”: Boys, Men, and Menstruation
  • 32. Menstrual Shame: Exploring the Role of ‘Menstrual Moaning’
  • 33. Becoming Female: The Role of Menarche Rituals in “Making Women” in Malawi
  • 34. Researcher’s Reflection: Learning About Menstruation Across Time and Culture
  • 35. Transnational Engagement: Designing an Ideal Menstrual Health (MH) Curriculum—Stories from the Field
• IV. Menstruation as Structural
  • 36. Introduction: Menstruation as Structural
  • 37. Practice Note: Why We Started Talking About Menstruation—Looking Back (and Looking Forward) with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
  • 38. Policy and Practice Pathways to Addressing Menstrual Stigma and Discrimination
  • 39. Menstrual Justice: A Missing Element in India’s Health Policies
  • 40. Practice Note: Menstrual Hygiene Management—Breaking Taboos and Supporting Policy Change in West and Central Africa
  • 41. U.S. Policymaking to Address Menstruation: Advancing an Equity Agenda
  • 42. Personal Narrative: Bloody Precarious Activism in Uganda
  • 43. Addressing Menstruation in the Workplace: The Menstrual Leave Debate
  • 44. Monitoring Menstrual Health in the Sustainable Development Goals
  • 45. Practice Note: Menstrual Health Management in Humanitarian Settings
  • 46. Mapping the Knowledge and Understanding of Menarche, Menstrual Hygiene and Menstrual Health Among Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
  • 47. Interventions to Improve Menstrual Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Do We Know What Works?
  • 48. Transnational Engagements: Menstrual Health and Hygiene—Emergence and Future Directions
• V. Menstruation as Material
  • 49. Introduction: Menstruation as Material
  • 50. Of Mice and (Wo)Men: Tampons, Menstruation, and Testing
  • 51. Toxic Shock Syndrome and Tampons: The Birth of a Movement and a Research ‘Vagenda’
  • 52. Measuring Menstruation-Related Absenteeism Among Adolescents in Low-Income Countries
  • 53. Practice Note: ‘If Only All Women Menstruated Exactly Two Weeks Ago’: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Experiences of Capturing Hormonal Variation Across the Menstrual Cycle
  • 54. Monitoring Menses: Design-Based Investigations of Menstrual Tracking Applications
  • 55. “Life is Much More Difficult to Manage During Periods”: Autistic Experiences of Menstruation
  • 56. Not a “Real” Period?: Social and Material Constructions of Menstruation
  • 57. Painting Blood: Visualizing Menstrual Blood in Art
  • 58. To Widen the Cycle: Artists Engage the Menstrual Cycle and Reproductive Justice
  • 59. The Modern Way to Menstruate in Latin America: Consolidation and Fractures in the Twenty-First Century
  • 60. Challenging the Menstruation Taboo One Sale at a Time: The Role of Social Entrepreneurs in the Period Revolution
  • 61. Transnational Engagements: Smashing the Last Taboo—Caring Corporations in Conversation
• VI. Menstruation as Narrative
  • 62. Introduction: Menstruation as Narrative
  • 63. Challenging Menstrual Normativity: Nonessentialist Body Politics and Feminist Epistemologies of Health
  • 64. Menstrual Trolls: The Collective Rhetoric of Periods for Pence
  • 65. Menstruation Mediated: Monstrous Emergences of Menstruation and Menstruators on YouTube
  • 66. Rituals, Taboos, and Seclusion: Life Stories of Women Navigating Culture and Pushing for Change in Nepal
  • 67. From Home to School: Menstrual Education Films of the 1950s
  • 68. Degendering Menstruation: Making Trans Menstruators Matter
  • 69. Sex During Menstruation: Race, Sexual Identity, and Women’s Accounts of Pleasure and Disgust
  • 70. Normality, Freedom, and Distress: Listening to the Menopausal Experiences of Indian Women of Haryana
  • 71. The Messy Politics of Menstrual Activism
  • 72. Transnational Engagements: Women’s Experiences of Menopause