Under Wraps
A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology
Seiten
2008
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1385-1 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1385-1 (ISBN)
Menstruation provides one of the few shared bodily functions that most women will experience during their lifetimes. Yet, these experiences are anything but common. In the United States, for the better part of the twentieth century, menstruation went hand-in-glove with menstrual hygiene. But how and why did this occur? This book looks at the social history of menstrual hygiene by examining it as a technology. In doing so, the lens of technology provides a way to think about menstrual artifacts, how the artifacts are used, and how women gained the knowledge and skills to use them. As technological users, women developed great savvy in manipulating belts, pins, and pads, and using tampons to effectively mask their entire menstrual period. This masking is a form of passing, though it is not often thought of in that way. By using a technology of passing, a woman might pass temporarily as a non-bleeder, which could help her perform her work duties and not get fired or maintain social engagements like swimming at a summer party and not be marked as having her period. How women use technologies of passing, and the resulting politics of secrecy, are a part of women's history that has remained under wraps.
Sharra L. Vostral is associate professor of gender and women's studies and history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Chapter 1 1. Menstrual Hygiene: A Techno-Social History
Chapter 2 2. Technology and Passing
Chapter 3 3. Scientific Menstruation and Making Menstruation Political
Chapter 4 4. "The Kotex Age": Consumerism, Technology, and Menstruation
Chapter 5 5. Menstruation in the Workplace: Private Technologies and Public Policies
Chapter 6 6. Virgin Bodies, Menstrual Hygiene Technologies, and Sex Education
Chapter 7 7. Questioning Menstrual Technology: Civil Rights, Design, and Culture
Chapter 8 8. Unveiling Menstrual Passing
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.3.2008 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 413 g |
| Themenwelt | Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7391-1385-2 / 0739113852 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7391-1385-1 / 9780739113851 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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