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My Big Christmas Activity Book Boys Ages 3-8 - A Fun Kid Educational Workbook Game For Learning, Advent Calendar, Connect the dot, Coloring, color bye numbers, Mazes Puzzle, Word Search, Look & find, Matching, Addition, Hidden Picture, and More! (Paperback)
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The Modern Period examines how and why Americans adopted
radically new methods of managing and thinking about menstruation
during the twentieth century.
In the early twentieth century women typically used homemade
cloth "diapers" to absorb menstrual blood, avoided chills during
their periods to protect their health, and counted themselves lucky
if they knew something about menstruation before menarche. New
expectations at school, at play, and in the workplace, however,
made these menstrual traditions problematic, and middle-class women
quickly sought new information and products that would make their
monthly periods less disruptive to everyday life.
Lara Freidenfelds traces this cultural shift, showing how
Americans reframed their thinking about menstruation. She explains
how women and men collaborated with sex educators, menstrual
product manufacturers, advertisers, physical education teachers,
and doctors to create a modern understanding of menstruation.
Excerpts from seventy-five interviews -- accounts by turns funny
and moving -- help readers to identify with the experiences of the
ordinary people who engineered these changes.
The Modern Period ties historical changes in menstrual practices
to a much broader argument about American popular modernity in the
twentieth century. Freidenfelds explores what it meant to be modern
and middle class and how those ideals were reflected in the
menstrual practices and beliefs of the time.
This accessible study sheds new light on the history of popular
modernity, the rise of the middle class, and the relationship of
these phenomena to how Americans have cared for and managed their
bodies.
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