Truth Scribbled in Blood

Women's Work, Menstruation and Poetry

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12309985
AutoresJ Sayers (0000-0002-6289-3436, Massey University, autor de correspondencia), Deborah Jones (0000-0002-6719-524X)
Año2014
Volumen22
Número2
Páginas94-111
Fecha de publicación2014-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGender Work and Organization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0968-6673 • E-ISSN: 1468-0432
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gwao.12059
OpenAlexW1875353000
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas16

Inspired by H élène C ixous's ‘The laugh of the M edusa’, this paper revisits a public uproar over menstruation in the workplace triggered by a statement from the CEO of N ew Z ealand's largest body of private sector employers, that periods make women take more sick leave than men. The utterance triggered an astonishing outpouring of public discussion and writing about working while menstruating, as well as about productivity and equal pay. We discuss how a comment about women's periods ruptured the status quo of menstrual repression by using selected online posts rendered as poems. Then, drawing on C ixous and the idea of poetic rapture, we discuss women's online writing in tandem with feminist writing on menstruation. In our theoretical reflections we consider how poetry, menstruation and social media can ‘make trouble’ for regimes of power. We argue that menstruation should be a required topic for organizational studies

Art · Literature · Menstruation · Poetry · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Status quo · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges · Internal Medicine