New Blood: Third-wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation

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Rutgers University Press, 2010 - 238 pagine
New Blood offers a fresh interdisciplinary look at feminism-in-flux. For over three decades, menstrual activists have questioned the safety and necessity of feminine care products while contesting menstruation as a deeply entrenched taboo. Chris Bobel shows how a little-known yet enduring force in the feminist health, environmental, and consumer rights movements lays bare tensions between second- and third-wave feminisms and reveals a complicated story of continuity and change within the women's movement.

Through her critical ethnographic lens, Bobel focuses on debates central to feminist thought (including the utility of the category "gender") and challenges to building an inclusive feminist movement. Filled with personal narratives, playful visuals, and original humor, New Blood reveals middle-aged progressives communing in Red Tents, urban punks and artists "culture jamming" commercial menstrual products in their zines and sketch comedy, queer anarchists practicing DIY health care, African American health educators espousing "holistic womb health," and hopeful mothers refusing to pass on the shame to their pubescent daughters. With verve and conviction, Bobel illuminates today's feminism-on-the-ground--indisputably vibrant, contentious, and ever-dynamic.

 

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Introduction
1
1 Encountering ThirdWave Feminism
14
2 Feminist Engagements with Menstruation
28
3 The Emergence of Menstrual Activism
42
4 FeministSpiritualist Menstrual Activism
65
5 Radical Menstruation
97
6 Making Sense of Movement Participation
135
6 When Women Become Menstruators
154
Conclusion
171
Appendix A Methods
181
Appendix B Interview Protocol
187
Appendix C Demographics of Interviewees
189
Appendix D Selected Menstrual Activist Resources
191
Notes
193
Index
225
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Chris Bobel is an associate professor and chair of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the author of The Paradox of Natural Mothering.

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