Menstrual dirt: an exploration of contemporary menstrual hygiene practices in Sweden
Why is menstruation so often considered a dirty phenomenon, in both material and symbolic terms? Josefin Persdotter's study Menstrual Dirt explores how notions and materializations of pollution are enacted in different menstrual practices. It unpacks taken for granted aspects of menstrual life...
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| Summary: | Why is menstruation so often considered a dirty phenomenon, in both material and symbolic terms? Josefin Persdotter's study Menstrual Dirt explores how notions and materializations of pollution are enacted in different menstrual practices. It unpacks taken for granted aspects of menstrual life and reveals persistent gendered inequalities in relation to menstruation. |
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| adam_text | Contents List of tables, figures, and appendices io Abbreviations 11 Acknowledgements 13 i. Introduction - the importance of menstrual dirt 19 Menstruation is fundamental 19 Menstruation as a matter of dirt? 20 Motivations - why study the makings of menstrual dirt? 24 Aim and research questions 26 Points of departure and key concepts 27 Structure of the text 29 2. Previous research - exploring scholarship on menstrual dirt and hygiene 30 Menstruation in sociology and beyond 31 The Sociology of Dirt 34 Critical Menstruation Studies 3 5 Studies of the menstrual hygiene industry 36 Studies of menstrual hygiene technologies 3 8 Studies of menstrual hygiene practices 39 Is menstrual pollution taken for granted? 41 The opportunities at hand 42 3. Theory - ways of understanding dirt 44 How things, such as dirt, come into being 44 Mary Douglas and her theorization of dirt 45 Theoretical toolbox 51 4. Methods - ways of researching menstruality 5 9 Research design 60 Ethical considerations 61 Explorative work with a small sample 6 5
A survey of menstrual practicalities 74 Analyzing the role of technologies 81 The final analysis 86 Reflecting on the total sample 87 Reflecting on cross-lingual research 89 5. Wearing pads - stains and embodied dirt 92 De-scribing the pad, getting started 94 Leakages, stains and superabsorbents 96 Sticky pubes, and dried in clots of blood too Smelly, reeky menstrual odors 102 Washing the menstrual body 107 The pleasures of embodied dirt no Concluding on wearing pads in 6. Disposing pads - dangers of menstrual waste 114 The paramount importance of discrete disposal 115 On forgetting to dispose of a used pad 117 Rolling as purification ritual 120 The importance of garbage bins 123 Menstrual pads down the drain 128 The practicalities of menstrual waste 132 Resisting concealment of menstrual waste 134 As out of place in the bin 137 Concluding on pad disposal 137 7. Cleaning cups - dirty objects in the margins 139 Inscriptions of dirt and pollution 140 The material dirtiness of cups 144 The bacterial dirtiness of cups 146 The symbolic dirtiness of cups, on boiling cups in pasta pots 154 Concluding on cleaning cups 157 8. Changing cups - cleaning menstrual mess 160 The ideal neat change 161 The messy change 164 Dirt in its right place? 173 The resource intensity of mess 173 The joys of changing cups 174 Concluding on changing cups 178
Conclusions - results, contributions and How menstruation is made dirty 18o Menstrual dirt - depicting system 18 8 Contributions 192 Speculative suggestions 193 Sammanfattning 197 References 209 Appendices 223 speculations
Why is menstruation so often considered о dirty phenomenon, in both material and symbolic terms? How do ideas and realities of menstrual pollution affect the lived experience of menstruation and everyday hygiene practices? Josefin Persdotter s study Menstrual Dirt explores how notions and materializations of pollution are enacted in different menstrual practices: in what products to use, in how to get rid of menstrual waste, how to clean reusables, wash the body and stained underwear, scrub toilets and avoid unwanted smells. It unpacks taken for granted aspects of menstrual life and reveals persistent gendered inequalities in relation to menstruation. In focus are two specific menstrual technologies: the disposable pad and the reu sable cup. The author shows how the promotion and use of these everyday tech nologies (re)produce menstruation as something dirty, symbolically and as a lived experience. Theoretical tools from the sociology of dirt, science and technology studies and anthropology are used to moke sense of a wealth of fascinating interview and documentary material. The study makes visible how menstrual pollution beliefs are (re)shaped in Sweden, a country with a comparatively high level of gender equality and menstrual acti vism. The results have implications in a wider context and for policies and techno logical changes to make menstruating into a less laborious and less negatively felt experience.
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Contents List of tables, figures, and appendices io Abbreviations 11 Acknowledgements 13 i. Introduction - the importance of menstrual dirt 19 Menstruation is fundamental 19 Menstruation as a matter of dirt? 20 Motivations - why study the makings of menstrual dirt? 24 Aim and research questions 26 Points of departure and key concepts 27 Structure of the text 29 2. Previous research - exploring scholarship on menstrual dirt and hygiene 30 Menstruation in sociology and beyond 31 The Sociology of Dirt 34 Critical Menstruation Studies 3 5 Studies of the menstrual hygiene industry 36 Studies of menstrual hygiene technologies 3 8 Studies of menstrual hygiene practices 39 Is menstrual pollution taken for granted? 41 The opportunities at hand 42 3. Theory - ways of understanding dirt 44 How things, such as dirt, come into being 44 Mary Douglas and her theorization of dirt 45 Theoretical toolbox 51 4. Methods - ways of researching menstruality 5 9 Research design 60 Ethical considerations 61 Explorative work with a small sample 6 5
A survey of menstrual practicalities 74 Analyzing the role of technologies 81 The final analysis 86 Reflecting on the total sample 87 Reflecting on cross-lingual research 89 5. Wearing pads - stains and embodied dirt 92 De-scribing the pad, getting started 94 Leakages, stains and superabsorbents 96 Sticky pubes, and dried in clots of blood too Smelly, reeky menstrual odors 102 Washing the menstrual body 107 The pleasures of embodied dirt no Concluding on wearing pads in 6. Disposing pads - dangers of menstrual waste 114 The paramount importance of discrete disposal 115 On forgetting to dispose of a used pad 117 Rolling as purification ritual 120 The importance of garbage bins 123 Menstrual pads down the drain 128 The practicalities of menstrual waste 132 Resisting concealment of menstrual waste 134 As out of place in the bin 137 Concluding on pad disposal 137 7. Cleaning cups - dirty objects in the margins 139 Inscriptions of dirt and pollution 140 The material dirtiness of cups 144 The bacterial dirtiness of cups 146 The symbolic dirtiness of cups, on boiling cups in pasta pots 154 Concluding on cleaning cups 157 8. Changing cups - cleaning menstrual mess 160 The ideal neat change 161 The messy change 164 Dirt in its right place? 173 The resource intensity of mess 173 The joys of changing cups 174 Concluding on changing cups 178
Conclusions - results, contributions and How menstruation is made dirty 18o Menstrual dirt - depicting system 18 8 Contributions 192 Speculative suggestions 193 Sammanfattning 197 References 209 Appendices 223 speculations
Why is menstruation so often considered о dirty phenomenon, in both material and symbolic terms? How do ideas and realities of menstrual pollution affect the lived experience of menstruation and everyday hygiene practices? Josefin Persdotter's study Menstrual Dirt explores how notions and materializations of pollution are enacted in different menstrual practices: in what products to use, in how to get rid of menstrual waste, how to clean reusables, wash the body and stained underwear, scrub toilets and avoid unwanted smells. It unpacks taken for granted aspects of menstrual life and reveals persistent gendered inequalities in relation to menstruation. In focus are two specific menstrual technologies: the disposable pad and the reu sable cup. The author shows how the promotion and use of these everyday tech nologies (re)produce menstruation as something dirty, symbolically and as a lived experience. Theoretical tools from the sociology of dirt, science and technology studies and anthropology are used to moke sense of a wealth of fascinating interview and documentary material. The study makes visible how menstrual pollution beliefs are (re)shaped in Sweden, a country with a comparatively high level of gender equality and menstrual acti vism. The results have implications in a wider context and for policies and techno logical changes to make menstruating into a less laborious and less negatively felt experience. |
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