Chris Bobel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4210941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Bobel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Bobel |
| SIGNATURE | BOBEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2712-894X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Menstrual health
The term "menstrual health" has seen increased use across advocacy, programming, policy, and research, but has lacked a consistent, self-contained definition. As a rapidly growing field of research and practice a comprehensive definition is needed to (1) ensure menstrual health is prioritised as a unified objective in global health, development, national policy, and funding frameworks, (2) elucidate the breadth of menstrual health, even where dif…
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary view of Critical Menstruation Studies and opens up new directions in research and advocacy. It is an unmatched resource for scholars in the field as it rapidly expands.
New Blood
New Blood offers a fresh interdisciplinary look at feminism-in-flux. For over three decades, menstrual activists have questioned the safety and necessity of feminine care products while contesting menstruation as a deeply entrenched taboo. Chris Bobel shows how a little-known yet enduring force in the feminist health, environmental, and consumer rights movements lays bare tensions between second- and third-wave feminisms and reveals a complicated…
From Bloodless Respectability to Radical Menstrual Embodiment
While menstrual activism has a robust history rooted in feminist ideals of bodily autonomy and anticonsumerism, its current iterations prioritize an anemic view of menstruation that grounds it in a neoliberal politics of respectability. As it stands now, menstrual activism has too often taken up menstrual products as the answer to “solving” menstrual stigma throughout the world while making invisible other aspects of the politics of menstruation …
Embodied Resistance
Menstruation Matters
Would you wear your own menstrual blood as lipstick? Probably not—few women would. But that's what made Ingrid Berthon-Moine's photograph of a young white woman doing exactly that such an arresting
From Convenience to Hazard
In this article, I explore the early history of contemporary menstrual activism in the United States by looking through the lens of the first seven editions of the feminist women's health classic, Our Bodies, Ourselves (OBOS). This analysis illustrates the development of a critical menstrual consciousness as three key phases of the emerging movement, offers a representation of the dynamic nature of feminist health consciousness, and highlights th…
I'm not an activist, though I've done a lot of it
This paper, based on in-depth interviews with thirty-three individuals involved in the burgeoning Menstrual Activism movement, explores why the identity ‘activist’ is resisted among some social movement actors. Drawing on a ‘perfect standard’ of politics and activism grounded in the core values of rigor and humility, an activist must ‘live the issue’, demonstrate relentless dedication, and contribute a sustained effort to duly merit the label. Th…
Our Revolution Has Style”
The Paradox of Natural Mothering
New Blood
New Blood offers a fresh interdisciplinary look at feminism-in-flux. For over three decades, menstrual activists have questioned the safety and necessity of feminine care products while contesting menstruation as a deeply entrenched taboo. Chris Bobel shows how a little-known yet enduring force in the feminist health, environmental, and consumer rights movements lays bare tensions between second- and third-wave feminisms and reveals a complicated…
I'm not an activist, though I've done a lot of it
This paper, based on in-depth interviews with thirty-three individuals involved in the burgeoning Menstrual Activism movement, explores why the identity ‘activist’ is resisted among some social movement actors. Drawing on a ‘perfect standard’ of politics and activism grounded in the core values of rigor and humility, an activist must ‘live the issue’, demonstrate relentless dedication, and contribute a sustained effort to duly merit the label. Th…
Our Revolution Has Style”
From Bloodless Respectability to Radical Menstrual Embodiment
While menstrual activism has a robust history rooted in feminist ideals of bodily autonomy and anticonsumerism, its current iterations prioritize an anemic view of menstruation that grounds it in a neoliberal politics of respectability. As it stands now, menstrual activism has too often taken up menstrual products as the answer to “solving” menstrual stigma throughout the world while making invisible other aspects of the politics of menstruation …
Menstruation Matters
Would you wear your own menstrual blood as lipstick? Probably not—few women would. But that's what made Ingrid Berthon-Moine's photograph of a young white woman doing exactly that such an arresting
The Paradox of Natural Mothering
Our Revolution Has Style”
I'm not an activist, though I've done a lot of it
This paper, based on in-depth interviews with thirty-three individuals involved in the burgeoning Menstrual Activism movement, explores why the identity ‘activist’ is resisted among some social movement actors. Drawing on a ‘perfect standard’ of politics and activism grounded in the core values of rigor and humility, an activist must ‘live the issue’, demonstrate relentless dedication, and contribute a sustained effort to duly merit the label. Th…
From Convenience to Hazard
In this article, I explore the early history of contemporary menstrual activism in the United States by looking through the lens of the first seven editions of the feminist women's health classic, Our Bodies, Ourselves (OBOS). This analysis illustrates the development of a critical menstrual consciousness as three key phases of the emerging movement, offers a representation of the dynamic nature of feminist health consciousness, and highlights th…
Embodied Resistance
Menstruation Matters
Would you wear your own menstrual blood as lipstick? Probably not—few women would. But that's what made Ingrid Berthon-Moine's photograph of a young white woman doing exactly that such an arresting
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary view of Critical Menstruation Studies and opens up new directions in research and advocacy. It is an unmatched resource for scholars in the field as it rapidly expands.
New Blood
New Blood offers a fresh interdisciplinary look at feminism-in-flux. For over three decades, menstrual activists have questioned the safety and necessity of feminine care products while contesting menstruation as a deeply entrenched taboo. Chris Bobel shows how a little-known yet enduring force in the feminist health, environmental, and consumer rights movements lays bare tensions between second- and third-wave feminisms and reveals a complicated…
From Bloodless Respectability to Radical Menstrual Embodiment
While menstrual activism has a robust history rooted in feminist ideals of bodily autonomy and anticonsumerism, its current iterations prioritize an anemic view of menstruation that grounds it in a neoliberal politics of respectability. As it stands now, menstrual activism has too often taken up menstrual products as the answer to “solving” menstrual stigma throughout the world while making invisible other aspects of the politics of menstruation …
Menstrual health
The term "menstrual health" has seen increased use across advocacy, programming, policy, and research, but has lacked a consistent, self-contained definition. As a rapidly growing field of research and practice a comprehensive definition is needed to (1) ensure menstrual health is prioritised as a unified objective in global health, development, national policy, and funding frameworks, (2) elucidate the breadth of menstrual health, even where dif…
Menstrual Health and Disorders (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Menstruation (3 works)