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In this book, I have explored a wide and diverse range of informal, or vernacular, knowledge about menstruation. This ‘menstrual lore’ addresses, and arises out of, the everyday nature of menstruation. It is alive and open to change, in reflection of broader changing contemporary attitudes, about gender and sexuality, in particular.
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Newton, V.L. (2016). Keep Bleeding. In: Everyday Discourses of Menstruation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48775-9_11
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