Men and Menstruation
A Social Transaction
©2019
Textbook
XII,
194 Pages
Series:
Visual Communication, Volume 8
Summary
What’s with the men in menstruation? This is the question Men in Menstruation: A Social Transaction sets out to answer. From earliest times men have been puzzled and perplexed by the menstrual cycle and have constructed elaborate taboos, superstitions, and practices attempting to explain why women have a periodical emission of a fluid that resembles blood but is not the result of an injury or affliction. In other words, men want to know why it is possible to bleed and not die. In order to understand what goes on between men and women in the presence of menstruation, this book examines a variety of encounters, referred to as "menstrual transactions." From the three women in the Bible who are identified as menstruating to contemporary films, advertising, TV programs and literature, the book explores a wide range of transactions, even including Prince Charles’s close encounter of a menstrual kind. The book will appeal to anyone interested in gaining insights into the mystery of menstruation as well as students of gender and women’s studies or media theory and history.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- Advance Praise for Men and Menstruation: A Social Transaction
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Menses and Me
- Part I: Men and the Menstrual Landscape
- Chapter One: The Menstrual Transaction
- Chapter Two: Blood in the Bible, Torah, and Quran and How Jesus Became a Menstrual Hero
- Chapter Three: A Royal Menstrual Pain: Prince Charles and the Tampon Scandal
- Chapter Four: The Literary Period: Sightings, Sex, and Dystopian Visions
- Part II: Mediating the Menstrual Landscape
- Chapter Five: Seeing Red on TV: Archie Bunker’s Dilemma
- Chapter Six: Blood on the Screen: Menstrual Features
- Chapter Seven: Selling the Product: Men in Menstrual Marketing
- Chapter Eight: Making Menstrual Music: Singing the Menstrual Blues
- Chapter Nine: Menstrual Mischief and Transgressions
- Chapter Ten: Random Menstrual Moments
- Conclusion: Men in the Emerging Menstrual Ecology
- Index
- Series Index
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR
Details
- Pages
- XII, 194
- Publication Year
- 2019
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433150418
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433150425
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433150432
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781433150449
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781433168727
- DOI
- 10.3726/b12018
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2019 (April)
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2019. XII, 194 pp.
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