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Menstrual Bodies and Gender

The Transnational Business of Menstruation from Latin America

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  1. Eugenia Tarzibachi

    1. University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

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  • Offers a powerful feminist critique of transnational discourses on menstruation
  • Reveals how markets and gender ideologies have produced a curiously bloodless femininity
  • Explores new perspectives in feminist and menstrual scholarship

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Putting Your Body into It

    • Eugenia Tarzibachi
    Pages 1-22

  3. Menstruating, Doing Gender

    • Eugenia Tarzibachi
    Pages 23-54

  4. Advertising “Feminine Protectors:” From Hygiene to Women’s Liberation

    • Eugenia Tarzibachi
    Pages 55-86

  5. “Becoming a Young Lady:” The First Period as a Mark of Gender

    • Eugenia Tarzibachi
    Pages 87-112

  6. The First Person: From “Rags” to Pads and Tampons

    • Eugenia Tarzibachi
    Pages 113-144

  7. Conclusion: Overdue Policies on the Menstrual Cycle and Final Remarks

    • Eugenia Tarzibachi
    Pages 145-153

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 155-157
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About this book

This book interrogates how the so-called “Feminine Care” industry travelled from the United States to Latin America via manufactured and disposable menstrual management technologies and certain narratives about menstrual bodies. The author focuses on Argentina as a case study to deepen the analysis of transnational politics and business practices around menstruation, drawing on women’s voices to unveil why menstruation is still a bodily process that is natural yet taboo in Latin America. This fascinating volume is a must-read for anyone interested in how the “Feminine Care” industry helped reify the insidious social mandate of shame and secrecy over women’s bodily experiences.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

    Eugenia Tarzibachi

About the author

Eugenia Tarzibachi is a licensed psychologist with a PhD in social sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), and a Master’s in clinical psychology from the University of San Francisco (United States). Author of the book Women's Thing. Menstruation, Gender and Power (in Spanish, 2017) awarded with the Ángeles Durán Prize of the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) for the innovation and advancement of feminist theory. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research and is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist in California where she is currently living.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Menstrual Bodies and Gender

  • Book Subtitle: The Transnational Business of Menstruation from Latin America

  • Authors: Eugenia Tarzibachi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2996-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2995-3Published: 01 July 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2998-4Published: 02 July 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-2996-0Published: 30 June 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 157

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Medical Sociology, Gender Studies, Sociology of the Body

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