The modern period : menstruation in twentieth-century America / Lara Freidenfelds.
2009
QP263 .F74 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
The modern period : menstruation in twentieth-century America / Lara Freidenfelds.
Author
Freidenfelds, Lara, 1972-
ISBN
9780801892455 (alk. paper)
0801892457 (pbk. : alk. paper)
40016778119
0801892457 (pbk. : alk. paper)
40016778119
Publication Details
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
QP263 .F74 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
612.6/62
Summary
"The Modern Period examines how and why Americans adopted radically new methods of managing and thinking about menstruation during the twentieth century." "In the early twentieth century women typically used homemade cloth "diapers" to absorb menstrual blood, avoided chills during their periods to protect their health, and counted themselves lucky if they knew something about menstruation before menarche. New expectations at school, at play, and in the workplace, however, made these menstrual traditions problematic, and middle-class women quickly sought new information and products that would make their monthly periods less disruptive to everyday life." "Lara Freidenfelds traces this cultural shift, showing how Americans reframed their thinking about menstruation. She explains how women and men collaborated with sex educators, menstrual product manufacturers, advertisers, physical education teachers, and doctors to create a modem understanding of menstruation. Excerpts from seventy-five interviews - accounts by turns funny and moving - help readers to identify with the experiences of the ordinary people who engineered these changes."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Before "modern" menstrual management : keeping secrets, wearing diapers, avoiding chills
The modern way to talk about menstruation : education, the scientific narrative, and public discussion
The modern way to behave while menstruating : changing health beliefs and practices
The modern way to manage menstruation : technology and bodily practices
Tampons : a case study in controversy.
The modern way to talk about menstruation : education, the scientific narrative, and public discussion
The modern way to behave while menstruating : changing health beliefs and practices
The modern way to manage menstruation : technology and bodily practices
Tampons : a case study in controversy.