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  • The Sage Encyclopedia of Menstruation and Society

    Edited by Bee Hughes, Kay Standing ...
    The encyclopedia will be interdisciplinary, bringing together scholars from, and of interest to, a wide range of disciplines across arts, humanities and the sciences. It brings together expert knowledge including from sociology, history, queer studies, anthropology, media studies, art history, development studies, sports studies, education, public health, film and television, law, medical science, ... Read more

    $158.39 USD

  • Menstruation in Nepal

    Dignity Without Danger

    Edited by Sara Parker, Kay Standing, Madhusudan Subedi ...
    This book examines the complexities of menstrual beliefs and practices in Nepal. Taking an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach, it explores and promotes the rights of women, girls, and people who menstruate to a dignified and healthy menstruation.The volume• collates current research in Nepal from local academics, early career researchers, and the Dignity Without Danger research project; ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Succeeding in Essays, Exams and OSCEs for Nursing Students

    by Mooi Standing, Kay Hutchfield ...
    Series series Transforming Nursing Practice Series
    The word ′assessment′ can strike terror into any student. However, providing evidence of knowledge and skills for professional practice is an integral and essential part of university life as a nursing student.This book helps nursing students better understand the processes of assessment so that every student can achieve their potential in their studies. It looks at each of the major forms of ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

    Edited by Chris Bobel, Inga T. Winkler, Breanne Fahs, Katie Ann Hasson, Elizabeth Arveda Kissling, Tomi-Ann Roberts ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across ... Read more

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  • Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time

    Edited by Christine McCourt ...
    Series Book 17 - Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
    All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work. Using case studies from a variety of cultural settings, the writers explore the centrality of the way ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Substantial Relations

    Making Global Reproductive Medicine in Postcolonial India

    by Sandra Bärnreuther ...
    Substantial Relations examines global reproductive medicine in India, focusing on in vitro fertilization. Since the 1970s, India has played a central but shifting role in shaping global reproductive medicine—from a provider of raw material, to a producer of knowledge and technology, to a creator of a thriving medical market that attracts patients from all over the world. Relying on archival ... Read more

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  • Transnational Reproduction

    Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India

    by Daisy Deomampo ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
    Transnational Reproduction traces the relationships among Western aspiring parents, Indian surrogates, and egg donors from around the world. In the early 2010s India was one of the top providers of surrogacy services in the world. Drawing on interviews with commissioning parents, surrogates, and egg donors as well as doctors and family members, Daisy Deomampo argues that while the surrogacy ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Birth controlled

    Selective reproduction and neoliberal eugenics in South Africa and India

    Edited by Amrita Pande ...
    Series series Governing Intimacies in the Global South
    Birth controlled analyses the world of selective reproduction – the politics of who gets to legitimately reproduce the future – through a cross-cultural analysis of three modes of ‘controlling’ birth: contraception, reproductive violence and repro-genetic technologies. It argues that as fertility rates decline worldwide, the fervour to control fertility, and fertile bodies, does not dissipate; ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Managed Body

    Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South

    by Chris Bobel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The Managed Body productively complicates ‘menstrual hygiene management’ (MHM)—a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in the Global South. Bobel offers an invested critique of the complicated discourses of MHM including its conceptual and practical links with the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) development sector, human rights and ‘the girling of development.’ Drawing on ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Reproductive Justice

    A Global Concern

    Edited by Joan C. Chrisler ...
    Series series Women's Psychology
    Every woman in the world has the right to control her own body, plan her family, receive good quality medical care, and give birth to a healthy baby. This book takes a comprehensive look at the status of women's reproductive rights from a transnational, human-rights perspective."Reproductive justice" is a relatively new term that underscores the fact that the existence of reproductive rights does ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Period

    The Real Story of Menstruation

    by Kate Clancy ...
    A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruationMenstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual’s period as useless, and some doctors still believe it’s unsafe for a menstruating person to swim in the ocean wearing a tampon. Period ... Read more

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  • Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom With Modern Knowledge

    by Rachel Reed ...
    It's time for a childbirth revolution. The modern approach to maternity care fails women, families and care providers with outdated practices that centre the needs of institutions rather than individuals. In this book, Rachel Reed weaves history, science and research with the experiences of women and care providers to create a holistic, evidence-based framework for understanding birth. Reclaiming ... Read more

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