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What's with the men in menstruation? This is the question Men in Menstruation: A Social Transaction sets out to answer. From earliest times men have been puzzled and perplexed by the menstrual cycle and have constructed elaborate taboos, superstitions, and practices attempting to explain why women have a periodical emission of a fluid that resembles blood but is not the result of an injury or affliction. In other words, men want to know why it is possible to bleed and not die. In order to understand what goes on between men and women in the presence of menstruation, this book examines a variety of encounters, referred to as "menstrual transactions." From the three women in the Bible who are identified as menstruating to contemporary films, advertising, TV programs and literature, the book explores a wide range of transactions, even including Prince Charles's close encounter of a menstrual kind. The book will appeal to anyone interested in gaining insights into the mystery of menstruation as well as students of gender and women's studies or media theory and history.
Table des matières
Acknowledgments - Introduction: Menses and Me - The Menstrual Transaction - Blood in the Bible, Torah, and Quran and How Jesus Became a Menstrual Hero - A Royal Menstrual Pain: Prince Charles and the Tampon Scandal - The Literary Period: Sightings, Sex, and Dystopian Visions - Seeing Red on TV: Archie Bunker's Dilemma - Blood on the Screen: Menstrual Features - Selling the Product: Men in Menstrual Marketing - Making Menstrual Music: Singing the Menstrual Blues - Menstrual Mischief and Transgressions - Random Menstrual Moments - Conclusion: Men in the Emerging Menstrual Ecology - Index.
A propos de l'auteur
David Linton (Ph.D., New York University) is Professor Emeritus at Marymount Manhattan College. He has published research on topics as diverse as the Luddite movement, the reading behavior of the Virgin Mary, Shakespeare as a media theorist, and media education. He serves on the Board of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research as well as having formerly been president of the New York State Conference of the American Association of University Professors. In addition, he is a cast member and the resident poet of the podcast Fireside Mystery Theatre.
Commentaire
"In a tour de force, David Linton explores the presence (and absence) of menstruation in both high and low culture. Linton's comprehensive and witty examination of men's reactions to menstruation in daily life, as well as in various forms of media, is a capstone of his thirty years of scholarly work on the topic. I can recommend this entertaining and accessible book to a broad range of readers with interests in popular culture, sex education, and gender and women's studies." -Joan C. Chrisler, Editor of Women's Reproductive Health
