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Chris Bobel

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Essay Review: Blood Work: Menstrual Cycle Scholarship Comes Of Age, Camilla Mørk Røstvik Jul 2019

Essay Review: Blood Work: Menstrual Cycle Scholarship Comes Of Age, Camilla Mørk Røstvik

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Out For Blood, Karen Houppert Feb 2019

Out For Blood, Karen Houppert

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Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions And Transformations Dec 2018

Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions And Transformations

Chris Bobel

Body Battlegrounds explores the rich and complex lives of society’s body outlaws—individuals from myriad social locations who oppose hegemonic norms, customs, and conventions about the body in context. Original research chapters (based on textual analysis, qualitative interviews, and participant observation), along with personal narratives, provide a window into the everyday lives of people rewriting the norms of embodiment in sites like schools, sporting events, and the doctor’s office. Each accessibly-written, pedagogically-oriented chapter and narrative is at once theoretically and methodologically transparent and alive with the voices of the actors at the center of inquiry.
 
Body Battlegrounds is organized as four visually-rich …

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The Managed Body: Developing Girls & Menstrual Health In The Global South Oct 2018

The Managed Body: Developing Girls & Menstrual Health In The Global South

Chris Bobel

The Managed Body productively complicates ‘menstrual hygiene management’ (MHM)--a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in the Global South. Bobel offers an invested critique of the complicated discourses of MHM including its conceptual and practical links with the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) development sector, human rights and ‘the girling of development.’ Drawing on analysis of in-depth interviews, participant observations and the digital materials of NGOs and social businesses, Bobel shows how MHM frames problems and solutions to capture attention and direct resources to this highly-tabooed topic. She asserts that MHM organizations often inadvertently rely upon weak evidence and …

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Beyond Dignity - The Misuse Of Discourses Of Human Rights In Development Campaigns.Pdf, Chris Bobel Dec 2017

Beyond Dignity - The Misuse Of Discourses Of Human Rights In Development Campaigns.Pdf, Chris Bobel

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The Messy Politics Of Menstrual Activism, Chris Bobel, Breanne Fahs Dec 2017

The Messy Politics Of Menstrual Activism, Chris Bobel, Breanne Fahs

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Of Blood, Bodies, And The Limits Of Empathy, Or The Potential Hazards Of Well-Meaning Make Believe Toward Social Change, Chris Bobel Dec 2014

Of Blood, Bodies, And The Limits Of Empathy, Or The Potential Hazards Of Well-Meaning Make Believe Toward Social Change, Chris Bobel

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The End Of When, Chris Bobel Dec 2013

The End Of When, Chris Bobel

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Mothers And Daughters, Research And Family, Life And Loss: Reflections On Inseparability, Chris Bobel Dec 2012

Mothers And Daughters, Research And Family, Life And Loss: Reflections On Inseparability, Chris Bobel

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I Am A Contradiction: Feminism And Feminist Identity In The Third Wave, Meredith A. Evans, Chris Bobel Dec 2012

I Am A Contradiction: Feminism And Feminist Identity In The Third Wave, Meredith A. Evans, Chris Bobel

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How is Third Wave feminism defined? What are the implications for self-labeling as a feminist and the evolution of the “I’m not a feminist, but. . . .” group? While much controversy surrounds the etiology and even the very existence of a “Third Wave” of feminism, this nascent movement is a significant aspect of the current dialogue on contemporary feminism. Therefore, it is important to examine the history and the meaning of the identity of Third Wave. In an attempt to elucidate contemporary feminism, four key Third Wave collections of personal narratives were chosen and analyzed for current definitions of …

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“Take This Class If You Like To Be Brainwashed”: Walking The Knife’S Edge Between Education And Indoctrination, Chris Bobel Dec 2012

“Take This Class If You Like To Be Brainwashed”: Walking The Knife’S Edge Between Education And Indoctrination, Chris Bobel

Chris Bobel

This article presents a case study or, perhaps more accurately, a pedagogical memoir that interrogates life inside my classroom as yet another site of transformation, a place where inner works become public acts. This story illustrates Anzaldúa's seven stages of conocimiento collapsed into four moments. Through an examination of "data" derived from my students' (anonymous) reflections on interacting with course material during the 15 -week term of my introductory Women's Studies class, I demonstrate the process of conocimiento, the complex series of awakenings, reckonings and integrations that build the foundation of social justice. I end by noting that what Anzaldúa …

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Concluding Reflections—A Dialogue: This Bridge We Are Building: “Inner Work, Public Acts”, Chris Bobel, Tim Sieber, Karen L. Suyemoto, Shirley Tang, Ann Torke Dec 2012

Concluding Reflections—A Dialogue: This Bridge We Are Building: “Inner Work, Public Acts”, Chris Bobel, Tim Sieber, Karen L. Suyemoto, Shirley Tang, Ann Torke

Chris Bobel

I suppose it is still a risky business for those of us in academia to expose and express too much of our inner, authentic selves, right? But why should it be like this?? What does it do to us? I'm glad that we had a chance to explore a little about our true selves with each other and out in the public at the conference! Gloria Anzaldúa was always ahead of her time. She has given us a powerful language to reflect on our experiences, and once again, it is Gloria who has made this intimate space possible for all …

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Introduction: This Bridge We Are Building: “Inner Work, Public Acts”, Chris Bobel, Tim Sieber, Karen L. Suyemoto, Shirley Tang, Ann Torke Dec 2012

Introduction: This Bridge We Are Building: “Inner Work, Public Acts”, Chris Bobel, Tim Sieber, Karen L. Suyemoto, Shirley Tang, Ann Torke

Chris Bobel

The symposium for which this is an introduction arose like a flower out of soil usually not known for nourishing vibrant, critical intellectual reflections: routine university governance committee work. All authors have been co-members for two years of the Diversity Committee, of the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Sciences and Mathematics, at the University of Massachusetts Boston. While it is true that most of us share wider intellectual and programmatic collaborations outside this committee, it was genuinely the task of doing our committee work that gave impetus to this panel. For this symposium, we used as an …

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Menstruation Matters: Introduction To Representations Of The Menstrual Cycle, Chris Bobel, Elizabeth A. Kissling Dec 2010

Menstruation Matters: Introduction To Representations Of The Menstrual Cycle, Chris Bobel, Elizabeth A. Kissling

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From Convenience To Hazard: A Short History Of The Emergence Of The Menstrual Activism Movement, 1971-1992, Chris Bobel Dec 2007

From Convenience To Hazard: A Short History Of The Emergence Of The Menstrual Activism Movement, 1971-1992, Chris Bobel

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I'M Not An Activist, Per Se, Though I'Ve Done A Lot Of It: Doing Activism, Being Activist And The Perfect Standard In A Contemporary Movement, Chris Bobel Dec 2006

I'M Not An Activist, Per Se, Though I'Ve Done A Lot Of It: Doing Activism, Being Activist And The Perfect Standard In A Contemporary Movement, Chris Bobel

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Resisting, But Not Too Much: Interrogating The Paradox Of Natural Mothering, Chris Bobel Dec 2006

Resisting, But Not Too Much: Interrogating The Paradox Of Natural Mothering, Chris Bobel

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Resistance With A Wink: Young Women, Feminism And The (Radical) Menstruating Body, Chris Bobel Dec 2005

Resistance With A Wink: Young Women, Feminism And The (Radical) Menstruating Body, Chris Bobel

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'Our Revolution Has Style': Menstrual Product Activists 'Doing Feminism' In The Third Wave, Chris Bobel Dec 2005

'Our Revolution Has Style': Menstrual Product Activists 'Doing Feminism' In The Third Wave, Chris Bobel

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When Good Enough Isn't: Mother Blame In The The Continuum Concept, Chris Bobel Dec 2003

When Good Enough Isn't: Mother Blame In The The Continuum Concept, Chris Bobel

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Bounded Liberation: A Focused Study Of La Leche League International, Chris Bobel Dec 2000

Bounded Liberation: A Focused Study Of La Leche League International, Chris Bobel

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