Issues of blood : the politics of menstruation

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Issues of blood : the politics of menstruation

Sophie Laws ; foreword by Margaret Stacey ; consultant editor, Jo Campling

Macmillan, 1990

  • : pbk

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注記

Bibliography: p. 222-236

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780333482339

内容説明

This unique approach to the subject of menstruation, claims that women's feelings about their periods are shaped by men's attitudes and by the imposition of their views on women. Sophie Law's research covered men as lovers, fathers, husbands, doctors and "experts'. She suggests that men's attitudes to menstruation are inseperable from their ideas about women in general. These attitudes include the feeling that women are "naturally" inferior and that their problems may inconvenience men. Women are therefore prevented from creating their own meanings for bodily events, and are forced to observe the etiquette of silence. They are unable to have positive feelings about an undeniable aspect of being a woman. Sophie Laws is the author of "Seeing Red: The Politics of Premenstrual Tension" and "Living with Sickle Cell Disease".

目次

  • Why does menstruation matter?
  • pollution, taboo and etiquette
  • "a sick joke" - male culture on menstruation
  • interpreting attitudes towards menstruation - is reproduction central?
  • menstruation and sexuality - new rules for old
  • gynaecology - one patriarchal mode of knowledge on menstruation
  • men's views of menstrual pain - a failure of empathy
  • mood change and the menstrual cycle - the meaning of premenstrual tension.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780333482346

内容説明

An approach to the subject of menstruation which claims that women's feelings about their periods are shaped by men's attitudes and the imposition of their views on women. Sophie Law's research covered men as lovers, fathers, husbands, doctors and "experts".

目次

  • Why does menstruation matter?
  • pollution, taboo and etiquette
  • "a sick joke" - male culture on menstruation
  • interpreting attitudes towards menstruation - is reproduction central?
  • menstruation and sexuality - new rules for old
  • gynaecology - one patriarchal mode of knowledge on menstruation
  • men's views of menstrual pain - a failure of empathy
  • mood change and the menstrual cycle - the meaning of premenstrual tension.

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