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The managed body: developing girls and menstrual health in the global south / Chris Bobel

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019Description: xxii, 351 pages : 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783319894133 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 305.4 BOB 013693
Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction: What a Girl Needs… Part I: Context Chapter 2: The Girling of Development Chapter 3: Making Menstruation Matter in the Global South: Mapping a Critical History of the Menstrual Hygiene Management Movement Part II: Framing the Problem: Stories of Risk, Risk of Stories Chapter 4: “Can You Imagine?” Making the Case for a Bloody Crisis Chapter 5: The Spectacle of the ‘Third World Girl’ and the Politics of Rescue Part III.Framing the Solution: Developing the ‘Good Body’ Chapter 6: “Dignity Can’t Wait”: Building a Bridge to Human Rights Chapter 7: Disciplining Girls through the Technological Fix: Modernity, Markets, Materials Chapter 8: Beyond the Managed Body: Putting Menstrual Literacy at the Center Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Notes on Language.
Summary: The Managed Body is an invested critique of the discourses of ‘Menstrual Hygiene Management’ (MHM)--a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in low and middle income countries. Bobel shows how MHM organizations frame the issues by claiming menstruating girls encounter ‘a hygienic crisis’ that authorizes rescue. Faced by the challenges of capturing attention and directing resources, MHM advocates often inadvertently rely upon weak evidence and spectacularized representations to promote a product-centered, consumerist agenda that actually accommodates more than it resists the core problem of menstrual stigma.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: What a Girl Needs…
Part I: Context
Chapter 2: The Girling of Development
Chapter 3: Making Menstruation Matter in the Global South: Mapping a Critical History of the Menstrual Hygiene Management Movement
Part II: Framing the Problem: Stories of Risk, Risk of Stories
Chapter 4: “Can You Imagine?” Making the Case for a Bloody Crisis
Chapter 5: The Spectacle of the ‘Third World Girl’ and the Politics of Rescue
Part III.Framing the Solution: Developing the ‘Good Body’
Chapter 6: “Dignity Can’t Wait”: Building a Bridge to Human Rights
Chapter 7: Disciplining Girls through the Technological Fix: Modernity, Markets, Materials
Chapter 8: Beyond the Managed Body: Putting Menstrual Literacy at the Center
Appendix A: Methods
Appendix B: Notes on Language.

The Managed Body is an invested critique of the discourses of ‘Menstrual Hygiene Management’ (MHM)--a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in low and middle income countries. Bobel shows how MHM organizations frame the issues by claiming menstruating girls encounter ‘a hygienic crisis’ that authorizes rescue. Faced by the challenges of capturing attention and directing resources, MHM advocates often inadvertently rely upon weak evidence and spectacularized representations to promote a product-centered, consumerist agenda that actually accommodates more than it resists the core problem of menstrual stigma.

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