If Men Could Menstruate

Gloria Steinem

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-0614-7_28

If Men Could Menstruate

Review

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies [Internet]. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan; 2020. Chapter 28.

2020 Jul 25.

Author

Gloria Steinem¹

Book Editors

Chris Bobel¹, Inga T. Winkler², Breanne Fahs³, Katie Ann Hasson⁴, Elizabeth Arveda Kissling⁵, Tomi-Ann Roberts⁶

Affiliation

¹ New York City, NY, USA

Book Affiliations

¹ Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
² Garden City Park, NY, USA
³ Women and Gender Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis, Arizona State University, Glendale, AZ, USA
⁴ Center for Genetics and Society, Berkeley, CA, USA
⁵ Women’s & Gender Studies, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, USA
⁶ Department of Psychology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Excerpt

In this satirical piece, Gloria Steinem scrutinizes the sexist social constructions dominant Western attitudes towards menstruation by imagining a world in which men, not women, are menstruators. Through Steinem’s critical lens, we can see clearly how we we “do” menstruation today—41 years after she originally penned the short essay for Ms. magazine.

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