Girls in Power: Gender, Body, And Menstruation in Adolescence
Laura Fingerson
Language: English
Pages: 200
ISBN: 079146900X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A consideration of menstruation in the lives of teenage girls? and in the lives of teenage boys.
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How boys will rifle through their backpacks and tease girls about the menstrual products they find. “WHY I NEVER CARRY A PURSE” Of course, the boys and other girls know that girls menstruate. In their menstrual management, girls must deal with this collective knowledge and awareness of menstruation. In her group interview, Jennifer said that simply leaving the classroom during class can be cause for notice and speculation: JENNIFER (14): Sometimes you’ll hear like a girl leave the room and.
Group and individual interviews with mostly white, high school age girls and boys living in southern and central Indiana. Although observational methods can access teens’ “naturally occurring” talk, conducting an in-depth ethnography of adolescent everyday talk is not feasible given the relative sparseness of menstrual-related talk in everyday conversations that are readily witnessed by researchers. Published ethnographies note that menstruation issues come up in teens’ talk; however, the.
Was like really excited.” Although Katie said she is frustrated with the work of menstruation, she added that menstruation “is part of my body” and “part of my femininity.” “It’s like—it’s something that I can like relate to in other women and it like connects me to the whole like—girl thing.” Interestingly, Klara provided a negative case as she feels that menstruation does not fit in with her overall conception of her body. She said, “I don’t think of myself as being incredibly feminine. Like,.
Menstruation are primarily based on their social interactions with girls and women (in addition to health class and what they view in the media). From these interactions, some boys talk about learning that menstruation can be painful for girls. Also, as shown in the following group interview, many boys learn that girls can get emotional, sensitive, and angry: 116 GIRLS IN POWER PAUL: What’s the first word or phrase you think of when I say menstruation? JIM (18): Period, heh heh. DEREK (19):.
Essays included in Price and Shildrick’s (1999) volume that expressly focuses on second wave theorists and the body. 16. Beaudry (2002). 17. Many older women in fact report doing this in the workplace (Lorber 1997). 18. Michael Messner (2000) finds similar phenomena among four and five year old girls in the United States using their bodies and voices to celebrate their soccer team, called the “Barbie Girls.” Although their male peers were chanting in opposition to the girls’ celebration of.