Menstruation Books for SEXPO 2023

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

Updated June 2, 2023
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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
Ebook
New Blood offers a fresh interdisciplinary look at feminism-in-flux. For over three decades, menstrual activists have questioned the safety and necessity of feminine care products while contesting menstruation as a deeply entrenched taboo. Chris Bobel shows how a little-known yet...
Girls in power : gender, body, and menstruation in adolescence
Fingerson, Laura
Paper Book
Girls in Power offers a fascinating and unique look at the social aspects of menstruation in the lives of adolescent girls--and also in the lives of adolescent boys. Although there has been much research on other aspects of gender and the body, this is one of the few books to examine menstruation...
Periods in pop culture menstruation in film and television
Rosewarne, Lauren.
Ebook
Menstruation seldom gets a starring role on screen despite being experienced regularly by nearly all women for a good many decades of their lives. Periods in Pop Culture: Menstruation in Film and Television, by Lauren Rosewarne, turns the spotlight on period portrayals in media, examining the...
Everyday Discourses of Menstruation Cultural and Social Perspectives
Newton, Victoria Louise.
Ebook
Menstruation is a topic which is both everyday and sensitive. From Leviticus to Pliny, to twentieth-century debates around 'menotoxin', to advertising and 'having the painters in', Victoria Newton's book offers a lively and innovative exploration of the social and cultural dimensions of menstruation...
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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