The Managed Body Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South /

The Managed Body is an invested critique of the discourses of 'Menstrual Hygiene Management' (MHM)--a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in low and middle income countries. Bobel shows how MHM organizations frame the issues by claiming menstruating girls encounter '...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bobel, Chris (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Sex.
Medical anthropology.
Social medicine.
Economic development.
Gender Studies.
Medical Anthropology.
Medical Sociology.
Development Studies.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: What a Girl Needs...
  • Part I: Context
  • Chapter 2: The Girling of Development
  • Chapter 3: Making Menstruation Matter in the Global South: Mapping a Critical History of the Menstrual Hygiene Management Movement
  • Part II: Framing the Problem: Stories of Risk, Risk of Stories
  • Chapter 4: "Can You Imagine?" Making the Case for a Bloody Crisis
  • Chapter 5: The Spectacle of the 'Third World Girl' and the Politics of Rescue
  • Part III.Framing the Solution: Developing the 'Good Body'
  • Chapter 6: "Dignity Can't Wait": Building a Bridge to Human Rights
  • Chapter 7: Disciplining Girls through the Technological Fix: Modernity, Markets, Materials
  • Chapter 8: Beyond the Managed Body: Putting Menstrual Literacy at the Center
  • Appendix A: Methods
  • Appendix B: Notes on Language.

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