Curse Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation

Name: Curse Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation
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ISBN: 9780374526924

ISBN-10: 0374526923

ISBN-13: 9780374526924

Edition: N/A

Authors: Karen Houppert

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Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/24/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction



The Industry


Advertising: A Culture of Concealment


The Tampon-Dioxin Link: Should We Worry?


A Case Study: Revisiting Toxic Shock


Targeted Marketing: The Stealth Campaign



The Adolescent


The Plummeting Age of Puberty and the "Epidemic" of Teen Sex


Sex and the Menstrual Genre


Formal Lessons: The ABC's of Blood


Unofficial Curriculums: The Subtext


Literature and the Menstrual Canon



The Adult: PMS. the Scourge of the Nineties


In the Beginning There Was Premenstrual Tension: Dr. Dalton Identifies an Illness, Carves a Niche, and Reaps a Profit


A Cyclical History


The Progesterone Cure


PMS Speakout: Defining a Problem


The Prozac Cure


What's in a Name?



Unlikely Prophets: The Menstrual Counterculture


The Resistance: Grrrls Speak Out


The Museum: Monument to Menstruation


Power in the Blood


Birth of a New Menstrual Product: InSync Miniforms


Conclusion


Notes


Acknowledgments


Permissions


Index