The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies
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10.1080/26410397.2020.1854928
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发表时间：
2020-12-16
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6
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Lowik A
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Lowik A
由来自30多个国家的134名撰稿人撰写的72章，《帕尔格雷夫月经危急研究手册》是一本开放获取、多学科和全面探索整个生命周期月经的书。1收集被组织成六个重叠的主题部分（月经作为基本的，体现的，基本原理，结构，材料和叙事），集中在两个中心问题：什么新的调查路线是可能的，当月经健康和政治集中;和，什么知识是获得时，月经出现作为一个动态的分析类别？该手册无缝地融合了经验研究与理论文章，诗歌，视觉艺术和第一人称叙事。每一部分都以多个合作者之间的跨国对话结束。在导言中，编辑们承认这本文集未能充分分散西方的声音。在该文集的发布活动上，编辑们讨论了他们如何能够更加积极地从全球南方招募作者，以及出版全球范围的英文文集所面临的挑战。然而，六个跨国对话是该系列的优势。它们有效地拆除了地缘政治筒仓，挑战殖民边界，促进知识翻译，并展示了编辑和贡献者在各种政治，社会，文化，时间和地理背景下理解月经的共同承诺。该手册要求读者考虑在历史上被社会边缘化的人，以及西方，顺式，白色，中产阶级和以神经型为中心的生殖和性健康研究。该系列包括专注于自闭症的章节（斯图尔特等人），跨性别者和非二元性者（Frank&Dellaria; Rydström）、无家可归者（Vora）、被监禁者（Bozelko; Roberts）、性工作者（Bobier）、残疾人（Steele & Goldblatt）、移民和难民（Hawkey等人）和宗教（科恩; Mirvis;苏库马尔;在关于解决月经耻辱的政策和实践途径的一章中，Patkar讨论了印度、塞内加尔、肯尼亚、阿富汗、孟加拉国、不丹、喀麦隆、马尔代夫、尼泊尔、尼日尔、斯里兰卡和坦桑尼亚的进展。作者提供了有见地和务实的政策建议，适用于不同的国家，在那里月经和性别平等可以使用无争议的切入点，如水，环境卫生和卫生干预措施。Patkar的贡献得到了Hennegan的系统综述的补充，该综述评估了中低收入国家月经健康干预措施的有效性。根据她的研究结果，Hennegan为实施循证月经公平干预措施和改善旨在减少和消除月经不平等的干预研究提出了具体建议。Levitt和Barnack-Tavlaris的章节重点关注月经假辩论，这些政策将为员工提供月经期间的休假时间。作者探讨了日本、中国台湾、中国、韩国、印度尼西亚、赞比亚、澳大利亚、印度和墨西哥的国家和组织月经假政策的存在。作者在月经耻辱，性别不平等和普遍的异性恋文化的更广泛背景下讨论了这些政策，并批判性地探讨了它们的潜在好处和缺点。他们的章节与Weiss-Wolf关于美国政策制定的工作很好地结合在一起，该工作承认挑战个人所得税是进入更广泛社会的切入点。
With 72 chapters, written by 134 contributors from more than 30 countries, The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies is an open access, multidisciplinary and comprehensive exploration of menstruation across the lifespan. 1 The collection is organised into six overlapping thematic sections (menstruation as fundamental, embodied, rationale, structural, material and narrative), focused on two central questions: what new lines of enquiry are possible when menstrual health and politics are centralised; and, what knowledge is gained when menstruation emerges as a dynamic category of analysis? The handbook seamlessly blends empirical research with theoretical essays, poetry, visual arts, and first-person narratives. Each section ends with a transnational dialogue between multiple collaborators. In the introduction, the editors acknowledge how the collection fails to adequately decentre Western voices. At the launch event for the collection, the editors discussed how they could have done more to actively recruit authors from the global South, as well as the challenges associated with publishing an English-language collection with a global scope. However, the six transnational conversations are a strength of the collection. They effectively dismantle geopolitical silos, challenge colonial borders, facilitate knowledge translation, and are demonstrative of the editors’ and contributors’ shared commitment to understanding menstruation within various political, social, cultural, temporal, and geographic contexts. The handbook challenges readers to consider menstruators who have been historically marginalised in society and within Western-, cis-, white-, middle-class-, and neurotypical-centric reproductive and sexual health research. The collection includes chapters focused on autistic (Steward et al.), trans and non-binary (Frank & Dellaria; Rydström), homeless (Vora), incarcerated (Bozelko; Roberts), sex-worker (Bobier), disabled (Steele & Goldblatt), migrant and refugee (Hawkey et al.) and religious (Cohen; Mirvis; Sukumar; Maharaj & Winkler) menstruators.In a chapter on policy and practice pathways to addressing menstrual stigma, Patkar discusses advances in India, Senegal, Kenya, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cameroon, Maldives, Nepal, Niger, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. The author offers insightful and pragmatic policy recommendations that are applicable and appropriate in diverse countries, where menstrual and gender equity can be advanced using noncontroversial entry points such as water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions. Patkar’s contribution is complemented by Hennegan’s systematic review which assesses the effectiveness of menstrual health interventions in low-and middle-income countries. Based on her findings, Hennegan makes concrete recommendations for implementing evidence-based menstrual equity interventions and for improving intervention research aimed at reducing and eliminating menstrual inequities. Levitt and Barnack-Tavlaris’ chapter focuses on the menstrual leave debate, policies which would provide employees with time off during menstruation. The authors explore the existence of national and organisational menstrual leave policies in Japan, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Indonesia, Zambia, Australia, India, and Mexico. The authors discuss these policies within the broader context of menstrual stigma, gender inequities and pervasive heteropatriarchal culture, and critically engage with both their potential benefits and drawbacks. Their chapter pairs nicely with Weiss-Wolf’s work on policymaking in the United States which acknowledges challenging the tampon tax as an entry point into broader …