Reorganizing Menstruation - Menstrual Innovations Redistribution of Boundaries, Capitals, Labour

Reorganizing menstruation explores what happens when menstrual practices change, and what is revealed and made possible when longstanding menstrual stigma is disrupted.

List of contents

• 1: Organization and menstruation


• 2: Theorizing menstruation


• 3: Reorganizing menstruation through work and time: A case study on a menstrual workplace policy


• 4: Reorganizing menstruation through products and blood management: A case study on the menstrual cup


• 5: Creating a feminist methodology for menstruation


• 6: Habitus and ethos in the remaking of menstruation


• 7: Deepening solidarity and expanding permissions


• 8: Redistributing boundaries, capitals, and labour


• 9: The movement towards a menstrual commons

About the author

Lara Owen is recognised internationally for her pioneering and continuing work on menstruation. She holds a PhD in menstrual organization from Monash Business School, is a founding member of the Menstruation Research Network (UK), and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Dr Owen's fieldwork has explored menstruation across a wide range of contexts in the UK, USA, and Australia. Her first book on the topic, Her Blood Is Gold, published in 1993, continues to be issued in new editions. She lectures internationally and teaches a Master's level course in Contemporary Menstrual Studies to students worldwide.

Summary

Reorganizing menstruation explores what happens when menstrual practices change, and what is revealed and made possible when longstanding menstrual stigma is disrupted.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Lara (Honorary Research Fellow Owen, Lara Owen, Lara (Honorary Research Fellow Owen, Lara L. Owen, Lara L. (Honorary Research Fellow Owen, Owen Lara
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2024
• EAN: 9780192870582
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287058-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Office Management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's health, Women’s health, Feminism & feminist theory, Office & workplace, Office and workplace, Feminism and feminist theory