ISBN:
9783319894133
,
3319894137
,
9783030077648
,
3030077640
Language:
English
Pages:
xxii, 351 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
21 cm
Parallel Title:
ebook version
DDC:
305.235/2091724
Keywords:
Teenage girls Social conditions
;
Menstruation Social aspects
;
Teenage girls Health and hygiene
;
Menstruation
;
Teenage girls Social conditions
;
Teenage girls Health and hygiene
;
Menstruation Social aspects
;
Developing countries
Abstract:
"The Managed Body is an invested critique of the discourses of 'Menstrual Hygiene Management' (MHM) -- a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in low and middle income countries. Bobel shows how MHM organizations frame the issues by claiming menstruating girls encounter 'a hygienic crisis' that authorizes rescue. Faced by the challenges of capturing attention and directing resources, MHM advocates often inadvertently rely upon weak evidence and spectacularized representations to promote a product-centered, consumerist agenda that actually accommodates more than it resists the core problem of menstrual stigma."--Page 4 of cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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