Menstruation Books for SEXPO 2023

Recommended titles for SExpo event from Tina Bebbington, History Librairan, UVic Libraries.

Updated June 2, 2023
University of Victoria Libraries Tina Bebbington, History and Newspaper Librarian, UVic
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The modern period : menstruation in twentieth-century America
Freidenfelds, Lara
Paper Book
Winner, 2010 Emily Toth Award for Best Book in Women's Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association The Modern Period examines how and why Americans adopted radically new methods of managing and thinking about menstruation during the twentieth century. In...
New blood third-wave feminism and the politics of menstruation
Bobel, Chris
Paper Book
No detailed description available for "New Blood".
Girls in power gender, body, and menstruation in adolescence
Fingerson, Laura
Ebook
A consideration of menstruation in the lives of teenage girls--and in the lives of teenage boys.
Blood magic : the anthropology of menstruation
Buckley, Thomas C. T.
Paper Book
Examining cultures as diverse as long-house dwellers in North Borneo, African farmers, Welsh housewives, and postindustrial American workers, this volume dramatically redefines the anthropological study of menstrual customs. It challenges the widespread image of a universal "menstrual taboo" as well...
The curse : a cultural history of menstruation
Delaney, Janice.
Paper Book
  "In its hard headed, richly documented concreteness, it is worth a thousand polemics." -- New York Times, from a review of the first edition "The Curse deserves a place in every women's studies library collection." -- Sharon Golub, editor of Lifting...

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