Periods in Pop Culture

Lauren Rosewarne is a lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Introduction. Blood HuntingChapter 1. Women Bleeding Secretly: The Gender, Place and Segregation of Menstruation Chapter 2. Red Tents and Moon Lodges: Menstruation and Rites of PassageChapter 3. The Curse of Eve: Cramped Stomachs and Cramped LifestylesChapter 4. The Menstrual Mess: The Disgust, Horror and Fear of MenstruationChapter 5. I Want to Suck Your Blood: Sex, Sexiness and MenstruationChapter 6. Bleeding Out Proud: Menstruation and EmpowermentChapter 7. You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone: Absent MenstruationChapter 8. Where Have all the Menstruators Gone? Rereading Missing MenstruationConclusion. A Strange Phenomena

Periods in Pop Culture contributes to the burgeoning critical scholarship-as-prism refracting the dynamic complexities of gendered embodiment. Rosewarne supplies a globetrotting and genre spanning taxonomy of the uneasy presence and telling absence of menstruation. This is a book that clearly reveals how menstruation’s significance lingers far beyond the punch line.