Aportes a una antropología feminista de la salud

El estudio del ciclo menstrual

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15530873
AutoresMaribel Blázquez Rodríguez (0000-0003-4237-2980), Maribel Blázquez-Rodríguez (0000-0002-5149-3699, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, autor de correspondencia), Eva Bolaños Gallardo (Sociedade Brasileira de Psicologia)
Año2017
Volumen13
Número2
Páginas253-253
Fecha de publicación2017-07-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSalud Colectiva (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1669-2381 • E-ISSN: 1851-8265
EditorialInstituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús (PUBLISHER • AR)
DOI10.18294/sc.2017.1204
PMID28832822
OpenAlexW2735758432
IdiomaES
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas5

Medical or Health Anthropology focused on the study of women continues to be a main area of anthropological study in Spain. The contributions of two referential figures in feminist health anthropology, Marcia Inhorn and Mari Luz Esteban, are applied to review the findings of a qualitative research study on the menstrual cycle carried out through 20 interviews with women between the ages of 16 and 44 years, between 2013 and 2014, in the municipality of Madrid. The analysis shows that menstruation is a clear example of the reproductive essentialization of women, of biological reductionism, of the medicalization of women's bodies and, above all, of the standardization of bodies. The visibilization and questioning of these assumptions through the voices of the women interviewed highlight the importance of this field within medical anthropology

Art · Humanities · Feminist Theory and Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies