It's Only Blood

Across the world, 2 billion people experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame. We are told not to discuss it in public, that tampons and sanitary pads should be hidden away, the blood rendered invisible. In many parts of the world, poverty, culture and religion collide causing the taboo around menstruation to have grave consequences. Younger people who menstruate are deterred from going to school, adults from work, infections are left untreated. The shame is universal and the silence a global rule. In Anna Dahlqvist tells the shocking but always moving stories of why and how people from Sweden to Bangladesh, from the United States to Uganda, are fighting back against the shame.>

Product details

• Authors: Anna Dahlqvist, Anna Dahlqvist
• Assisted by: Alice Olsson (Translation), Alice E. Olsson (Translation)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 15.05.2018
• Subject: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9781786992628
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-262-8
• Pages: 160
• Dimensions (packing): 12.8 x 19.8 x 2.1 cm
• Subjects: USA, Flow, Uganda, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Bangladesh, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, MEDICAL / Nursing / Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Sweden, India, Kenya, Personal & public health, The Curse, female empowerment, Women's health, Women’s health, health care, Social discrimination & inequality, Feminism & feminist theory, United States of America, USA, Sociology: sexual relations, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Gender studies: women and girls, Human rights, civil rights, Development Studies, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Personal and public health / health education, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships, International Development, Social discrimination and social justice, Women Studies, Out for Blood, water aid, Breanne Fahs, padman, Elissa Stein, Janice Delaney, periodpositive