{"product_id":"blood-stories-menarche-and-the-politics-of-the-female-body-in-contemporary-u-s-society-paperback","title":"Blood Stories: Menarche and the Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary U.S. Society - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanet Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJennifer Sasser-Coen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlood Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e focuses on menarche as a central aspect of body politics in contemporary US society, emphasizing that women are integrated into the social and sexual order through the body. Using oral and written narratives of 104 diverse women, the authors address the central question of how menarche as a bodily event signifying womanhood takes on cultural significance in a society that devalues women. Exploring issues of contamination and concealment and the sexualization of women's bodies that occurs at menarche, the authors emphasize how the politics of gender are negotiated on\/through women's bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat are women's experiences of menarche, an event that so completely identifies them as female in a society that devalues womanhood and women's bodies? In Blood Stories Janet Lee and Jennifer Sasser-Coen focus on menarche as a central aspect of body politics in contemporary society. Using a social constructivist post structuralist view of the subject, the book emphasizes that it is in part through the body that women are integrated into the social and sexual disorder, and it is in part through the discourses and disciplinary practices of menstruation, framed as \"\"feminine\"\" normative practices, that heterosexuality is constructed and reconstructed in everyday live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanet Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor and Director of Women's Studies at Oregon State University. \u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Sasser Coen\u003c\/strong\u003e is a doctoral candidate and instructor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42190611546192,"sku":"9780415915472","price":117.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/aVJkZ05KTFVDWkxOVU5NdlNwSVZZQT09.webp?v=1774864261","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/blood-stories-menarche-and-the-politics-of-the-female-body-in-contemporary-u-s-society-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}