Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Throughout the 20th century, the marketing and design of menstrual products often stigmatized menstruation as an unmentionable bodily affliction. Menstruation was wrapped in euphemism: that time of the month, a weakness, a nuisance. “Feminine hygiene” products offered sanitation, invisibility, and freedom—but at what cost? Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity shows how marketing and social norms around menstruation create a cultural construct with power to shape people’s lives. 

Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Student's quest to make Harvard '100% period secure' — Harvard Gazette

Student's quest to make Harvard '100% period secure' — Harvard Gazette

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Feminist artist uses red paint and MENSTRUAL PADS as canvases, Art Pads

Feminist artist uses red paint and MENSTRUAL PADS as canvases, Art Pads

Out for Blood: Essays on Menstruation and Resistance (SUNY Series, Praxis: Theory in Action): 9781438462127: Fahs, Breanne: Books

Out for Blood: Essays on Menstruation and Resistance (SUNY Series, Praxis: Theory in Action)

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Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University