Ch. 31: “You Will Find Out When the Time Is Right”: Boys, Men, and Menstruation
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This chapter appears in the book, The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies. Edited by Chris Bobel, Inga T. Winkler, Breanne Fahs, Katie Ann Hasson, Elizabeth Arveda Kissling, and Yomi-Ann Roberts.
Chapter abstract: The majority of menstruators are women—although not all women menstruate and not all menstruators are women. Given this, it is not surprising that there has been little focus on the attitudes about and experiences with menstruation among men. This chapter reviews the research about menstruation and boys and men who are not themselves menstruators in order to shed light on how they learn about menstruation, what they actually know about menstruation, and what beliefs and attitudes boys and men hold about both menstruation and menstruators. It is important to note that nearly all of the research in this area reflects an underlying assumption of a gender binary. Because of this, binary gendered language is often used in this chapter to reflect the nature of the research that has been done. Moreover, this chapter focuses cisgender boys and men. While a critically important topic to study, the experiences of men and non-binary people who menstruate is not covered in this chapter—largely because, to date, there is little academic work on this topic.
ISBN
978-981-15-0613-0
Publication Date
2020
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan, part of Springer Nature
City
London
Keywords
Gender studies, Menstruation, Male perspectives, Activism, Politics
Disciplines
Biological Psychology | Gender and Sexuality | Social Psychology
Recommended Citation
Erchull, Mindy J., "Ch. 31: “You Will Find Out When the Time Is Right”: Boys, Men, and Menstruation" (2020). Psychological Science Books. 2.
https://scholar.umw.edu/psychological_science_books/2
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