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What do men really think about menstruation? In Chapter 3 the men I interviewed reported discussions or lack of discussions with women, what they had seen or not seen in their families. However the interviews also uncovered a whole set of ideas, mainly in joke form, which exist among men and are not usually repeated in interactions with women.
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© 1990 Sophie Katherine Laws
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Laws, S. (1990). ‘A Sick Joke’: Male Culture on Menstruation. In: Campling, J. (eds) Issues of Blood. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21176-0_4
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