It's Only Blood

Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

Anna Dahlqvist (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2018
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78699-263-5 (ISBN)

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A shocking, illuminating and
moving account of how people around the world are shattering the taboos around
menstruation.

Across the world, 2 billion people experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame. We are told not to discuss it in public, that tampons and sanitary pads should be hidden away, the blood rendered invisible. In many parts of the world, poverty, culture and religion collide causing the taboo around menstruation to have grave consequences. Younger people who menstruate are deterred from going to school, adults from work, infections are left untreated. The shame is universal and the silence a global rule.

In It’s Only Blood Anna Dahlqvist tells the shocking but always moving stories of why and how people from Sweden to Bangladesh, from the United States to Uganda, are fighting back against the shame.

Anna Dahlqvist is a journalist specialising in gender, sexuality and human rights. She is editor-in-chief of Ottar, a Swedish magazine focusing on sexual politics and has previously published a book on illegal abortion and abortion rights in Europe.

1. Stains

2. Our Shame
3. Lost Days
4. A Comprehensive Set of Rules
5. A Painful Silence
6. Millions of Menstruating Textile Workers
7. ‘I Just Kept Bleeding’
8. Bloody Menstrual Protection!
9. The Struggle

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2018
Übersetzer	Alice E. Olsson
Sprache	englisch
Maße	134 x 204 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-78699-263-9 / 1786992639
ISBN-13	978-1-78699-263-5 / 9781786992635
Zustand	Neuware