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menstruation in twentieth-century America
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Freidenfelds, Lara
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 39 2009
- Thesaurus
- menstruatie, vrouwenlichamen, gezondheid, voorlichting, reclames, dagelijks leven, seksualiteit, premenstrueel syndroom, middenklasse, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The Modern Period examines how and why Americans adopted radically new methods of managing and thinking about menstruation during the twentieth century. In the early twentieth century women typically used homemade cloth 'diapers' to absorb menstrual blood, avoided chills during their periods, and counted themselves lucky if they knew something about menstruation before menarche. New expectations at school, at play, and in the workplace, however, made these menstrual traditions problematic, and middle-class women sought new information and products that would make their monthly periods less disruptive to everyday life. Lara Freidenfelds traces this cultural shift. She explains how women and men collaborated with sex educators, menstrual product manufacturers, advertisers, physical education teachers, and doctors to create a modern understanding of menstruation. Excerpts from seventy-five interviews help readers to identify with the experiences of the ordinary people who engineered these changes. The Modern Period ties historical changes in menstrual practices to a much broader argument about American popular modernity in the twentieth century. Freidenfelds explores what it meant to be modern and middle class and how those ideals were reflected in the menstrual practices and beliefs of the time. This study sheds new light on the history of popular modernity, the rise of the middle class, and the relationship of these phenomena to how Americans have cared for and managed their bodies.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rotman, Deborah
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 1D 2009
- Thesaurus
- demografie, economie, weduwen, alleenstaanden, moederschap, feminisme, dagelijks leven, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, statistiek, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of social and economic factors converged that resulted in the rural village of Deerfield, Massachusetts becoming almost entirely female. This drastic shift in population presents a unique lens through which to study gender roles and social relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This can provide new insight to the study of gender relations throughout other historical periods as well. .Through an examination of both historical and archaeological evidence, the author presents a clear picture of the gendered social relations in Deerfield over the span of seventy years. While gender relations in urban settings have been studied extensively, this work provides the same level of examination to gender relations in a rural setting. Likewise, where previous studies have often focused only on relations between married men and women, the case of Deerfield provides insight into the experiences of single women, particularly widows and “spinsters”.
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