Men and Menstruation

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.

• 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.

“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