Capitalizing on the Curse : : The Business of Menstruation / / Elizabeth Arveda Kissling.
Although a regular occurrence for millions of women, menstruation is typically represented in US culture as an illness or a shameful episode--to the benefit of an entire industry. Elizabeth Kissling reveals how corporations capitalize on long-standing negative attitudes about menses to sell solution...
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Kissling, Elizabeth Arveda, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Capitalizing on the Curse : The Business of Menstruation / Elizabeth Arveda Kissling. Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022] ©2006 1 online resource (155 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: From Rags to Riches -- 2 Marketing Menstruation -- 3 Blood On-Screen -- 4 Pills, Profits, PMS, and PMDD -- 5 Manipulating Menstruation for Fun and Profit -- 6 Tampon Safety Debates and Product Alternatives -- 7 The Menstrual Counterculture -- 8 Conclusion: How to Break a Curs -- References -- Index -- About the Book restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Although a regular occurrence for millions of women, menstruation is typically represented in US culture as an illness or a shameful episode--to the benefit of an entire industry. Elizabeth Kissling reveals how corporations capitalize on long-standing negative attitudes about menses to sell solutions for nonexistent problems. The commercialization of menstruation, Kissling acknowledges, has in many ways been positive: women embrace readily available, reasonably priced, and easy-to-use products with good reason. But it has also been one of the worst things to happen to women. Documenting how industry advertising portrays women as "the weaker sex," Kissling explores the profound gender bias inherent in--and reinforced by--the business of menstruation. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000 9783110784251 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781588269225 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781588269225 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781588269225/original |
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