Issues of Blood
The Politics of Menstruation
Published on 1. January 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 244 pages
978-0-333-48234-6 (ISBN)
Description
An approach to the subject of menstruation which claims that women's feelings about their periods are shaped by men's attitudes and the imposition of their views on women. Sophie Law's research covered men as lovers, fathers, husbands, doctors and "experts".
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Edition
1990 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XIII, 244 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-48234-6 (9780333482346)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-21176-0
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
01/1991
Palgrave Macmillan
€55.71
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Persons
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.
Content
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.