LEADER 04592nam 22006255 450 001 9910253330803321 005 20200704002718.0 010 $a1-137-48775-5 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-48775-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000718190 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-48775-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4719996 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000718190 100 $a20160524d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEveryday Discourses of Menstruation $eCultural and Social Perspectives /$fby Victoria Louise Newton 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 213 p.) 311 $a1-137-48774-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeword; Richard Jenkins -- Chapter 1. The 'Folklore of Menstruation': Researching Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Experience -- Chapter 2. Periods: Historical and Cultural Interpretations of Menstruation -- Chapter 3. Positioning Periods in Context: Contemporary Discourses and Dilemmas -- Chapter 4. On the Blob: Young Adulthood and Menstrual Lore -- Chapter 5. Managing Menstruation: The Menarche and Status Passage -- Chapter 6. Talking about My Menstruation: A Generational Comparison -- Chapter 7. The Curse: Popular Histories and Cultural Knowledge -- Chapter 8. 'Auntie's Come to Tea': Menstrual Euphemism -- Chapter 9. Mentioning the Unmentionable: 'Only Joking...' -- Chapter 10. Closed for Maintenance: Backstage spaces, and Selling Shame -- Chapter 11. Conclusions: Keep Bleeding. 330 $a?This book offers an original contribution to a number of fields including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology and gender studies. Social norms, beliefs and practices around menstruation remain a significantly underresearched and under-theorised experience and as such this book makes a valuable and timely contribution.? ? Kay Inckle, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 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. Through in-depth interviews with men and women, the book explores the many different ways in which this sensitive topic is spoken about in British culture. Looking specifically at euphemism, jokes, popular knowledge, everyday experience and folklore, the book provides original insights into the different discourses acting on the menstruating body and encourages debate about how these help to shape our everyday attitudes towards menstruation. Victoria Newton is a research associate in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University, UK. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with interests in sexual and reproductive health, the articulation of sensitive subjects in the everyday, and informal knowledge and belief concerning the body. . 606 $aHuman body?Social aspects 606 $aSociology 606 $aSocial groups 606 $aFamily 606 $aCulture 606 $aFeminist anthropology 606 $aSociology of the Body$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22230 606 $aGender Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000 606 $aSociology of Family, Youth and Aging$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22080 606 $aSociology of Culture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22100 606 $aFeminist Anthropology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X12050 615 0$aHuman body?Social aspects. 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aSocial groups. 615 0$aFamily. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aFeminist anthropology. 615 14$aSociology of the Body. 615 24$aGender Studies. 615 24$aSociology of Family, Youth and Aging. 615 24$aSociology of Culture. 615 24$aFeminist Anthropology. 676 $a306.4613 700 $aNewton$b Victoria Louise$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01061601 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910253330803321 996 $aEveryday Discourses of Menstruation$92519333 997 $aUNINA