The Modern Period

Author: Lara Freidenfelds
Edition: 1
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0801892457

The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America

The Modern Period examines how and why Americans adopted radically new methods of managing and thinking about menstruation during the twentieth century. Medical books The Modern Period.

In the early twentieth century women typically used homemade cloth "diapers" to absorb menstrual blood, avoided chills during their periods to protect their health, and counted themselves lucky if they knew something about menstruation before menarche. New expectations at school, at play, and in the workplace, however, made these menstrual traditions problematic, and middle-class women quickly sought new information and products that would make their monthly periods less disruptive to everyday life.

Lara Freidenfelds traces this cultural shift, showing how Americans reframed their thinking about menstruation. She explains how women and men collaborated with sex educators, menstrual product manufacturers, advertisers, physical education teachers, and doctors to create a modern understanding of menstruation Medical books Notable American Women: The Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary (notable Am. format paperback language english publication year 01 07 1984 subject social sciences subject 2 gender studies gay lesbian studies title notable american women the modern period a biographical dictionary notable american women author sicherman barbara editor sicherman barbara green carol hurd editor publisher belknap pr publication date sep 01 1983 pages 773 binding paperback edition reprint dimensions 7 00 wx 10 25 hx 1 50 d isbn 0674627334 subject biography autobiography reference descriptio

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format paperback language english publication year 01 07 1984 subject social sciences subject 2 gender studies gay lesbian studies title notable american women the modern period a biographical dictionary notable american women author sicherman barbara editor sicherman barbara green carol hurd editor publisher belknap pr publication date sep 01 1983 pages 773 binding paperback edition reprint dimensions 7 00 wx 10 25 hx 1 50 d isbn 0674627334 subject biography autobiography reference descriptio

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Medical Book The Modern Period

In the early twentieth century women typically used homemade cloth "diapers" to absorb menstrual blood, avoided chills during their periods to protect their health, and counted themselves lucky if they knew something about menstruation before menarche. New expectations at school, at play, and in the workplace, however, made these menstrual traditions problematic, and middle-class women quickly sought new information and products that would make their monthly periods less disruptive to everyday life.

Lara Freidenfelds traces this cultural shift, showing how Americans reframed their thinking about menstruation. She explains how women and men collaborated with sex educators, menstrual product manufacturers, advertisers, physical education teachers, and doctors to create a modern understanding of menstruation. Excerpts from seventy-five interviews—accounts by turns funny and moving—help readers to identify with the experiences of the ordinary people who engineered these changes.

The Modern Period ties historical changes in menstrual practices to a much broader argument about American popular modernity in the twentieth century. Freidenfelds explores what it meant to be modern and middle class and how those ideals were reflected in the menstrual practices and beliefs of the time.

This accessible study sheds new light on the history of popular modernity, the rise of the middle class, and the relationship of these phenomena to how Americans have cared for and managed their bodies.