Lexington Books
Pages: 268
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7391-7000-7 • Hardback • June 2012 • $133.00 • (£102.00)
978-0-7391-7001-4 • eBook • June 2012 • $126.00 • (£97.00)
Lauren Rosewarne is a lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Introduction. Blood Hunting
Chapter 1. Women Bleeding Secretly: The Gender, Place and Segregation of Menstruation
Chapter 2. Red Tents and Moon Lodges: Menstruation and Rites of Passage
Chapter 3. The Curse of Eve: Cramped Stomachs and Cramped Lifestyles
Chapter 4. The Menstrual Mess: The Disgust, Horror and Fear of Menstruation
Chapter 5. I Want to Suck Your Blood: Sex, Sexiness and Menstruation
Chapter 6. Bleeding Out Proud: Menstruation and Empowerment
Chapter 7. You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone: Absent Menstruation
Chapter 8. Where Have all the Menstruators Gone? Rereading Missing Menstruation
Conclusion. A Strange Phenomena
Periods in Pop Culture contributes to the burgeoning critical scholarship-as-prism refracting the dynamic complexities of gendered embodiment. Rosewarne supplies a globetrotting and genre spanning taxonomy of the uneasy presence and telling absence of menstruation. This is a book that clearly reveals how menstruation’s significance lingers far beyond the punch line.
— Christina Bobel, University of Massachusetts Boston
Periods in Pop Culture is an engaging and thought-provoking read. Are the increasing mentions of menstruation and menopause in films and television shows a good or a bad thing for women? Read this book, and decide for yourself!
— Joan Chrisler, Connecticut College