Abstract
Menstruation is insistently material; a slimy red-brown-ish, perhaps lumpy, substance flowing out and creeping up on everyday life in a society expecting exactly this uncontrollable material to be controlled. Menstrual products absorbing and collecting menstrual blood are used to this end, thus deeply entangled with what means to be menstruating. Informed by new materialism, this research conceptualizes menstruation as ‘body-blood-product’ entanglements, or what I theorize as menstrual materialities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Denmark including in-depth interviews with 15 women, this research asks what the menstrual materialities facing women are like and how these shape menstrual experiences and bodily understandings.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 26. May 2023 |
| Publication status | Published - 26. May 2023 |
| Event | Second Annual Conference of the Menstruation Research Network (UK): Menstruation & Sustainability - University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom Duration: 26. May 2023 → 26. May 2023 Conference number: 2 |
Conference
| Conference | Second Annual Conference of the Menstruation Research Network (UK) |
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| Number | 2 |
| Location | University of St. Andrews |
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | St. Andrews |
| Period | 26/05/2023 → 26/05/2023 |
Keywords
- Menstruation
- Ethnographic fieldwork
- Menstrual Cycle
- Menstrual products
- Consumer products
- Material culture
- Materiality
- New materialism
- Critical Menstruation Studies