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Last update: Jana Vojanová (28.09.2023)
Course credit: 6 Language: English Tutor: Aysha Farhana Chakkampully E-mail: 30486391@fsv.cuni.cz Abstract: Critical Menstruation Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the social, cultural, and political dimensions of menstruation. This course seeks to challenge traditional approaches to menstruation by examining it as a significant aspect of reproductive health and a subject of public discourse. Students will develop a thorough awareness of current body politics to foster critical thinking learning theories, research and activism on menstruation, reproductive health, and gender justice in contemporary society. Course objectives: • Explore the evolution of Critical Menstruation Studies as a contemporary discipline. • Examine theories, methods, and concepts in menstrual research. • Trace contemporary menstrual activism and its impact on social change. • Analyze the intersection of body, power, and agency in embodiment research |
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Last update: Aysha Farhana Chakkampully (24.12.2023)
1)Active participation at the class seminars: 20 points All meetings are organized around group discussions. Students should come prepared to discuss the compulsory literature or recommended readings of the week. Participation in seminars is compulsory. Two absences are allowed. 2) Oral presentation at seminar: Student will select one topic for presentation to present at seminar exploring a specific topic within Critical Menstruation Studies. Two forms of presentations are available and mandatory. a) Group presentation: 20 points The presentation of topic is not intended as a summary of the recommended reading, but a presentation of the topic in group of 3. b) Presentation of paper: 30 points This form of presentation is intended as individual presentation of the selected paper/theme from course literature. Using power point presentation is recommended but not required. 3) Written assignment addressing the topic of the presentation: 30 points Students are required to write a short essay, for 3000 wors (including 2-3 page reference) on a topic of their individual presentation at seminars analyzing relevant literature based on the paper that was assigned as reading for the presentation. Submission deadline: 5/01/2024 Grading System 91 - 100 points: A 81 - 90 points: B 71 - 80 points: C 61 - 70 points: D 51 - 60 points: E less than 51 points: F
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Last update: Aysha Farhana Chakkampully (23.11.2023)
Working lesson plan: W1. 04.10.2023 – Introductory lesson (class orientation, main themes, course outlook) W2. 11.10.2023 – Evolution of menstruation research · Definition and scope of Critical Menstruation Studies · Intersectionality and the study of menstruation Required readings: Bobel, Chris, and Elizabeth Alverda Kissling. "Menstruation matters: Introduction to representations of the menstrual cycle." Women's Studies 40.2 (2011): 121-126. Bobel, Chris, and Breanne Fahs. "From bloodless respectability to radical menstrual embodiment: Shifting menstrual politics from private to public." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45.4 (2020): 955-983. Recommended readings: Patterson, Ashly. “The social construction and resistance of menstruation as a public spectacle.” Illuminating how identities, stereotypes, and inequalities matter through gender studies (2014): 91-108. Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing research: Indigenous story work as methodology. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019 W3. 18.10.2023 – Theories & Concepts · Feminist perspectives on menstruation Required readings: Bartky, Sandra Lee. Femininity and domination: Studies in the phenomenology of oppression. Routledge, 2015: 83-98 Bobel, Chris. New blood: Third-wave feminism and the politics of menstruation. Rutgers University Press, 2010: 28-41 Recommended readings: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. We should all be feminists. Vintage, 2014. Crenshaw, Kimberlé W. On intersectionality: Essential writings. The New Press, 2017. Golub, Sharon. Lifting the curse of menstruation: A feminist appraisal of the influence of menstruation on women's lives. Routledge, 2017: 1-36 Shuttle, Penelope, and Peter Redgrove. The wise wound: Myths, realities, and meanings of menstruation. New York: Grove Press, 1988: 42-54 W4. 25.10.2023 - Menstruation and Culture · Taboos, stigma, and menstruation · Menstruation in religion · Menstruation: media and pop culture Required readings: Cohen, Ilana. "Menstruation and religion: developing a critical menstrual studies approach." The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies (2020): 115-129 Douglas, Mary. Purity and danger: An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo. Routledge, 2003: 7-30 Recommended readings: Goffman, Erving. Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity. Simon and Schuster, 2009: 126-139 Przybylo, Ela, and Breanne Fahs. "Empowered bleeders and cranky menstruators: Menstrual positivity and the “liberated” era of new menstrual product advertisements." The Palgrave handbook of critical menstruation studies (2020): 375-394. W5. 01.11.2023 – Menstrual Lens · The global North and South division in menstruation · Medicalization of menstruation · Menstrual technology Required readings: Bobel, Chris, and Pitt. Managed Body. Springer International Publishing, 2019: 111-131 Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, and Esther O. Ohito. "Containing the Leakiness of Impure Inhumans: Bleeding Third-World Bodies and the Confining Cultural Politics of Menstrual Hygiene Campaigns." Youth Sexualities: Public Feelings and Contemporary Cultural Politics (2018): 107-28 Recommended readings: Gaybor, Jacqueline, and Wendy Harcourt. "Seeing the colour red: Menstruation in global body politics." Global Public Health 17.10 (2022): 2388-2400 Laws, Sophie. Issues of blood: The politics of menstruation. Springer, 1991: 48-50, 69-92 W6. 08.11.2023 – Follow up lecture of W.5 W7. 15.11.2023 – Screening of the short film ´Period. End of the Sentence´ (2018) and interactive seminar (followed in Week 8) W8. 22.11.2023 – Menstruation: Health, Hygiene, and Policy · Reproductive Health Inequalities · Menstrual health: access, disparities, and healthcare Required readings: McMahon, Shannon A., et al. 'The girl with her period is the one to hang her head: Reflections on menstrual management among schoolgirls in rural Kenya." BMC international health and human rights 11 (2011): 1-10. Sommer, Marni, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Constance Nathanson, and Richard G. Parker. 2015. “Comfortably, Safely, and Without Shame: Defining Menstrual Hygiene Management as a Public Health Issue”. American Journal of Public Health. 105 (7): 1302-1311. Recommended readings: Herbert, Ann C., et al. "Puberty experiences of low-income girls in the United States: a systematic review of qualitative literature from 2000 to 2014." Journal of Adolescent Health 60.4 (2017): 363-379. W9 29.11.2023 - Gendered embodiment: justice and contemporary body politics · Menstruation and body image · Trans/non-binary menstruation · Menstruation and reproductive rights Required readings: Csordas, Thomas J. "Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology." Body/meaning/healing. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2002. 58-87. Lowik, A. J. "“Just because I don't bleed, doesn't mean I don't go through it”: Expanding knowledge on trans and non-binary menstruators." International Journal of Transgender Health 22.1-2 (2020): 113-125. Steele, Linda, and Beth Goldblatt. "The human rights of women and girls with disabilities: sterilization and other coercive responses to menstruation." The Palgrave handbook of critical menstruation studies (2020): 77-91. Have a look at: https://vuokkoset.fi/en/my-body/vuokkoset-for-men-tampon/ W10. 06.12.2023 – Menstrual activism: goals and challenges · Contemporary menstrual activism and climate action · Menstruation/Reproductive health technology: Capitalism and body autonomy Required readings: https://nursingclio.org/2023/10/04/exploring-critical-menstrual-studies-in-the-nordic-region-the-importance-of-local-specificities/ Røstvik, Camilla Mørk. "'Do Not Flush Feminine Products! ' The Environmental History, Biohazards and Norms Contained in the UK Sanitary Bin Industry Since 1960." Environment and History 27.4 (2021): 549-579. Pdf available here https://doi.org/10.3197/096734019X15740974883807. Nyanzi, Stella. "Personal narrative: Bloody precarious activism in Uganda." The Palgrave handbook of critical menstruation studies (2020): 551-559. Recommended readings: Persdotter, Josefin. Menstrual dirt-An exploration of contemporary menstrual hygiene practices in Sweden. 2022: 115-139. Pdf available here (Open access book): https://arkiv.nu/butik/menstrual-dirt W11. 13.12.2023 - Required readings: Ahamed, Farah. Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia. Pan Macmillan, 2022 (selected interviews) W12. 20.12.2023 -Discussion: · “If men could menstruate” by Gloria Steinem · “I being born woman and suppressed” by Heather Corrina |