Flow
Subtitle: the cultural story of menstruation
By: Elissa Stein and Susan Kim.
Contributors: Kim, Susan, 1958-
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780312379964
Subjects: Menstruation -- Social aspects
Description: In this hip, hilarious and truly eye-opening cultural history, menstruation is talked about as never before. Flow spans its fascinating, occasionally wacky and sometimes downright scary story: from mikvahs (ritual cleansing baths) to menopause, hysteria to hysterectomies - not to mention the Pill, cramps, the history of underwear, and the movie about puberty they showed you in 5th grade. Flow answers such questions as: What's the point of getting a period? What did women do before pads and tampons? What about new drugs that promise to end periods - a hot idea or not? Sex during your period: gross or a turn-on? And what's normal, anyway? With color reproductions of (campy) historical ads and early (excruciating) femcare devices, it also provides a fascinating (and mind-boggling) gallery of this complex, personal and uniquely female process.
Table of contents: title: Language; title: Where we are today; title: So how did we get here?; title: Hysteria; title: Seeing red; title: Sex and religion; title: Society's role; title: Timeline; title: Happily ever after; title: Advertising; title: The scent of a woman; title: So now you're a woman!; title: Back to basics; title: When good periods go bad; title: Staunching the flow; title: Hey, is it getting hot in here?; title: Outside the box.