Issues of Blood: The Politics of Menstruation
Author:   Sophie Laws ,  Jo Campling
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1990 ed.
ISBN:  

9780333482346


Pages:   244
Publication Date:   01 January 1991
Format:   Paperback
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Issues of Blood: The Politics of Menstruation


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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 therfore 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"".

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Author:   Sophie Laws ,  Jo Campling
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1990 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780333482346


ISBN 10:   0333482344
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   01 January 1991
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"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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SOPHIE LAWS is Research Worker/Co-ordinator for Physical Disability Services for West Lambeth Health Authority. She has been a feminist activist for many years, with a particular interest in women's health issues, and is a founder member of the Trouble and Strife collective. She is co-author of Seeing Red: the Politics of Premenstrual Tension and Living with Sickle Cell Disease.

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