The Managed Body productively complicates ‘menstrual hygiene management’ (MHM)--a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in the Global South. Bobel offers an invested critique of the co
"Chris Bobel is a careful ethnographer, respectful of research participants, and while she clearly takes a stand on menstrual activism, she handily defends her proposition that feminism is `finding it
Sixteen chapters, presented by Bobel (women's studies, U. of Massachusetts) and Kwan (sociology, U. of Houston), explore the relevance of the concept of resistance within the study of how social relat
Embodied Resistance engages the rich and complex range of society's contemporary "body outlaws"--people from many social locations who violate norms about the private, the repellent, or the forbidden.
Original research chapters are balanced with personal narratives.Table of ContentsIntroduction | Chris Bobel and Samantha KwanPart I: Going "Natural"• Body Hair Battlegrounds: The Consequences,
Original research chapters are balanced with personal narratives.Table of ContentsIntroduction | Chris Bobel and Samantha KwanPart I: Going "Natural"• Body Hair Battlegrounds: The Consequences,
