New Blood: Third-Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation
Description
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 femini...
ISBN(s)
0813547547, 9780813547541
