Everyday Discourses of Menstruation Cultural and Social Perspectives
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Victoria Louise Newton
Everyday Discourses of Menstruation
Victoria Louise Newton
Everyday Discourses of Menstruation Cultural and Social Perspectives
Victoria Louise Newton Faculty of Health and Social Care The Open University Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-48774-2 ISBN 978-1-137-48775-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-48775-9
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Foreword
It’s a genuine privilege to be asked to write a few words introducing Victoria Newton’s book about the everyday social construction, and individual and collective experience, of menstruation, just as it was a privilege to supervise the PhD on which it is based. This is, however, more than just a proud supervisor talking; she has, I believe, written an important book, in a number of senses. To begin with, the subject matter matters. Women, who comprise half the world’s population, for a significant portion of their lives—several decades—have a recurrent body management issue, one way or another: they bleed without being wounded, and they do so vaginally, in a place that is in all cultures regarded as an intimate, if not utterly private bodily place. It is a hugely important place, symbolically and biologically: at the centre of ovulation, fertility, and human reproduction. To bleeding, we must add, for a great many women, a complex array of ‘side effects’ of the cycle of ovulation, which may include—for these are individually highly variable—greater or lesser pain, sickness, and emotio
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