Regulating Menstruation: Beliefs, Practices, Interpretations - Softcover

 
9780226847443: Regulating Menstruation: Beliefs, Practices, Interpretations
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226847446 ISBN 13: 9780226847443
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Menstruation, seen alternately as something negative—a "curse" or a failed conception—or as a positive part of the reproductive process to be celebrated as evidence of fertility, has long been a universal concern. How women interpret and react to menstruation and its absence reflects their individual needs both historically as well as in the contemporary cultural, social, economic, and political context in which they live. This unique volume considers what is known of women's options and practices used to regulate menstruation—practices used to control the periodicity, quantity, color, and even consistency of menses—in different places and times, while revealing the ambiguity that those practices present.

Originating from an Internet conference held in February 1998, this volume contains fourteen papers that have been revised and updated to cover everything from the impact of the birth control pill to contemporary views on reproduction to the pharmacological properties of various herbal substances, reflecting the historical, contemporary, and anthropological perspectives of this timely and complex issue.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Etienne van de Walle is a professor of demography and a member of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He coedited Mortality and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Elisha P. Renne is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan and author of Cloth That Does Not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bunu Social Life.

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Historical and anthropological studies of the practices of women use to affect their menses have largely failed to consider their perceptions of menstruation and their intentions over the course of time. Do women view their period as something negative--a "curse," or a failed conception--or as something to be celebrated because it signals either that they are not pregnant, or that they remain fecund? This unique volume considers women's attitudes toward their menses and the ambiguities inherent in regulating them. Covering a wide range of topics from the impact of herbal substances to current views of reproduction and the Pill, this multidisciplinary work by historians, anthropologists, demographers, and health specialists sheds new light on the culture of reproduction.

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Historical and anthropological studies of the practices of women use to affect their menses have largely failed to consider their perceptions of menstruation and their intentions over the course of time. Do women view their period as something negative&;a "curse," or a failed conception&;or as something to be celebrated because it signals either that they are not pregnant, or that they remain fecund? This unique volume considers women's attitudes toward their menses and the ambiguities inherent in regulating them. Covering a wide range of topics from the impact of herbal substances to current views of reproduction and the Pill, this multidisciplinary work by historians, anthropologists, demographers, and health specialists sheds new light on the culture of reproduction.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226847446
ISBN 13 
9780226847443
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
334
Herausgeber
Van De Walle Etienne, Renne Elisha P.
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