Menstrual hygiene management: education and empowerment for girls?
Menstrual hygiene management: education and empowerment for girls?
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10.3362/1756-3488.2015.006
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2015-01-01
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Joshi, D.
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Deepa Joshi, Deepa Joshi;Buit, G.;Joshi, D.
本文讨论了水、环境卫生和个人卫生(WASH)部门最近对解决发展中国家年轻女孩月经卫生危机的关注。月经卫生管理干预措施，包括使用卫生巾、教育和提高认识，以及在可能的情况下使用单独的卫生厕所，被认为对女孩的教育和赋权具有深远的影响。在加纳北部地区进行的实地研究表明，年轻女孩及其家人、学校教师和当地非政府组织对月经有明显的社会化、性别化的理解和体验。不幸的是，WASH计划只允许干预措施来管理月经卫生，让年轻女孩和其他人在她们的社交环境中处理性问题的更大子集。我们认为，将月经医学化概念的主导话语开放给其他意义和经验，将对年轻青春期女孩的教育和赋权产生重大影响。
This paper discusses the recent attention of the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector to resolving the menstrual hygiene crisis for young girls in developing countries. Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) interventions, including the use of sanitary pads, education and awareness, and where possible separate, sanitary toilets, are identified to have far-reaching impacts on the education and empowerment of girls. Field research conducted in Ghana's Northern Region indicates a pronounced socialized, sexualized understanding and experience of menstruation among young girls and their families, school teachers, and local NGOs. Unfortunately WASH initiatives only allow interventions to manage menstrual hygiene, leaving the young girls and others in their social settings to deal with the larger subset of sexuality issues. We argue that opening the dominant discourse of a medicalized concept of menstruation to other meanings and experiences will have significant implications for the education and empowerment of young adolescent girls.