Girls in power : gender, body, and menstruation in adolescence /

Girls in Power offers a fascinating and unique look at the social aspects of menstruation in the lives of adolescent girls--and also in the lives of adolescent boys. Although there has been much research on other aspects of gender and the body, this is one of the few books to examine menstruation an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fingerson, Laura
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.
Subjects:
Human body > Social aspects.
Menstruation > Social aspects.
Sex role.
Teenage girls > Psychology.
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005037173.html
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