Flow · The Cultural Story of Menstruation
- Authors
- Stein, Elissa & Kim, Susan
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin
- Tags
- women in history , women's studies , social history , politics & social sciences , physiology , professional & technical , basic science , general , personal health , health; fitness & dieting , health , science , historical study & educational resources , feminism , history , women's health , medical ebooks
- ISBN
- 9780312379964
- Date
- 2009-11-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 4.49 MB
- Lang
- en
In this hip, hilarious and truly eye-opening cultural history, menstruation is talked about as never before. *Flow** *spans its fascinating, occasionally wacky and sometimes downright scary story: from *mikvahs* (ritual cleansing baths) to menopause, hysteria to hysterectomies—not to mention the Pill, cramps, the history of underwear, and the movie about puberty they showed you in 5th grade.
*Flow* answers such questions as: What’s the *point* of getting a period? What did women do before pads and tampons? What about new drugs that promise to end periods—a hot idea or not? Sex during your period: gross or a turn-on? And what’s *normal*, anyway? With color reproductions of (campy) historical ads and early (excruciating) femcare devices, it also provides a fascinating (and mind-boggling) gallery of this complex, personal and uniquely female process.
As irreverent as it is informative, *Flow* gives an everyday occurrence its true props – and eradicates the stigma placed on it for centuries.