Women wearing white: Discourses of menstruation and the experience of menarche
Women wearing white: Discourses of menstruation and the experience of menarche
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DOI：
10.1177/0959353512473812
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发表时间：
2013-08-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Falmagne, Rachel Joffe
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作者：
Jackson, Theresa E.;Falmagne, Rachel Joffe
这项研究探讨了青春期女孩如何理解她们初潮的意义，关于月经的主流社会话语是如何被挪用、拒绝或解释的。 13 名 18-21 岁的女性参与了灵活的深度访谈，回顾性地讲述了她们的月经初潮经历。阅读指南的一个变体用于主要数据分析，确定了四个主题，突出了女孩对初潮的矛盾心理。参与者在初潮时对于自己作为女性的假定地位存在矛盾；在讨论月经时使用不精确、疏远的语言；从事隐瞒月经的物质和话语实践；并提到了一个遭受月经痛苦的社区。此外，对参与者谈话的话语分析表明他们持续感到不适。我们认为，女孩初潮的经历与月经禁忌、身体羞耻和女性气质的关系是矛盾的。对月经和女性身体的负面讨论使女孩在初潮时陷入了有问题的性别轨迹，这有望为她们一生的意义创造和经历提供信息。
This study examines how dominant societal discourses of menstruation are appropriated, rejected, or interpreted as adolescent girls make meaning of their menarche. Thirteen women ages 18-21 participated in flexible in-depth interviews to retrospectively recount their menarcheal experience. A variation of the Reading Guide was used for primary data analysis, which identified four themes highlighting girls' ambivalence regarding menarche. Participants were conflicted at menarche about their putative status as women'; used imprecise, distancing language when discussing menstruation; engaged in material and discursive practices of concealing menstruation; and referenced a community of menstrual suffering. Further, discourse analysis of participants' talk suggests their continued discomfort. We argue that girls experience menarche ambivalently in relation to menstrual taboos, body shame and emergent womanhood. Negative discourses of menstruation and women's bodies converge to set girls on a problematic gendered trajectory at menarche that can be expected to inform meaning making and experiences across the lifespan.