Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation

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UPC:
9780312379964
Binding:
Hardcover
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Publication Date:
11/10/2009
Release Date:
11/10/2009
Author:
Elissa Stein;Susan Kim
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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Product Overview

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 hysterectomiesnot 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: Whats the point of getting a period? What did women do before pads and tampons? What about new drugs that promise to end periodsa hot idea or not? Sex during your period: gross or a turn-on? And whats 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.

As irreverent as it is informative, Flow gives an everyday occurrence its true props and eradicates the stigma placed on it for centuries.