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
Chris Bobel
No abstract provided.
Out For Blood, Karen Houppert
Feb 2019
Out For Blood, Karen Houppert
Chris Bobel
No abstract provided.
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 …
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 …
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
Chris Bobel
No abstract provided.
The Messy Politics Of Menstrual Activism, Chris Bobel, Breanne Fahs
Dec 2017
The Messy Politics Of Menstrual Activism, Chris Bobel, Breanne Fahs
Chris Bobel
No abstract provided.