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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

Chris Bobel

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Out For Blood, Karen Houppert Feb 2019

Out For Blood, Karen Houppert

Chris Bobel

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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

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

Chris Bobel

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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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