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Under Wraps - A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology (Hardcover)
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Under Wraps - A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology (Hardcover)
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Menstruation provides one of the few shared bodily functions that
most women will experience during their lifetimes. Yet, these
experiences are anything but common. In the United States, for the
better part of the twentieth century, menstruation went
hand-in-glove with menstrual hygiene. But how and why did this
occur? This book looks at the social history of menstrual hygiene
by examining it as a technology. In doing so, the lens of
technology provides a way to think about menstrual artifacts, how
the artifacts are used, and how women gained the knowledge and
skills to use them. As technological users, women developed great
savvy in manipulating belts, pins, and pads, and using tampons to
effectively mask their entire menstrual period. This masking is a
form of passing, though it is not often thought of in that way. By
using a technology of passing, a woman might pass temporarily as a
non-bleeder, which could help her perform her work duties and not
get fired or maintain social engagements like swimming at a summer
party and not be marked as having her period. How women use
technologies of passing, and the resulting politics of secrecy, are
a part of women's history that has remained under wraps.
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