Elizabeth Arveda Kissling
Biographic Data
| ID | 5112798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Arveda Kissling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth Arveda |
| FAMILY NAME | Kissling |
| SIGNATURE | KISSLING E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
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.
An Exploratory Study of Heritage Spanish Rhotics
When speaking their heritage language, heritage speakers typically sound much like other “native speakers.” However, recent studies have found that heritage speakers (HSs) are highly variable and produce a range of more and less “native-like” phonetic features. In an effort to stimulate productive new research in this area, this article addresses some of the methodological challenges of heritage language phonetics research, namely dealing with hi…
Covered in Ink
Beverly Yuen Thompson’s ethnographic study, Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women, and the Politics of the Body, is a welcome contribution to the surprisingly sparse feminist literature on women with tatt
Pills, Periods, and Postfeminism
Since the English translation of Elsimar Coutinho's Is Menstruation Obsolete? in 1999 and the introduction of cycle-stopping birth control pills in 2003, US women are increasingly advised that menstruation is not necessary for good health. The most widely distributed source of such messages is direct-to-consumer advertisements for birth control pills. The most recent television ads for Seasonique, the leading brand of cycle-stopping contraceptive…
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
Lara Freidenfelds, The Modern Period
Lara Freidenfelds, a historian currently teaching in Women's Studies at Wellesley College, has written a thorough and engaging history of menstruation in twentieth-century USA. Her title, The Modern Period, is more than a succinct description; it cleverly references her discussion throughout of how advancing Progressive values shaped beliefs and practices surrounding menstruation. These Progressive values included faith in scientific rationality,…
Capitalizing on the Curse
Although a regular occurrence for millions of women, menstruation is typically represented in US culture as an illness or a shameful episode--to the benefit of an entire industry. Elizabeth Kissling reveals how corporations capitalize on long-standing negative attitudes about menses to sell solutions for nonexistent problems. The commercialization of menstruation, Kissling acknowledges, has in many ways been positive: women embrace readily availa…
On the Rag on Screen
When Being Female Isn’t Feminine
In this paper, I examine newspaper coverage of Uta Pippig’s 1996 Boston Marathon. Pippig won the Boston Marathon for the third time in a row, in spite of being slowed by menstrual cramps, heavy menstrual flow, and diarrhea. These obstacles and Pippig’s victory over them, as well as her competitors, received disparate treatment in newspaper coverage of the marathon. This coverage provides a rare look at how menstruation is constructed, and erased,…
Bleeding out Loud
Girls in the USA receive mixed messages about menarche: menarche is traumatic and upsetting-but act normal; menarche is an overt symbol of sexual maturity-but also a mysterious, secret event. Girls I interviewed reported another-dualism in their menstrual education. They perceive a clear distinction between two kinds of menstrual knowledge: scientific knowledge about the anatomy and physiological functioning, and what they termed `realistic', pra…
I Don't Have a Great Body, but I Play One on TV
In the body conscious 1980s and 1990s, diet and fitness books featuring celebrities are a popular genre of self-help books. This essay analyzes the rhetorical construction of women's bodies, and the mind-body relationships in these texts
Street Harassment
In this article I analyze the social meanings of men's public harassment of women unknown to them. I consider various interpretations of street harassment, such as the harmless girl-watching some men claim to engage in or the invasions of privacy many women perceive in such behavior. Next I discuss multiple social functions of such harassment, and argue that all of these functions can be seen to work together to produce an environment of sexual t…
Stranger Compliments
(1991). Stranger Compliments: The Interpretation of Street Remarks. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 75-93
Street Harassment
In this article I analyze the social meanings of men's public harassment of women unknown to them. I consider various interpretations of street harassment, such as the harmless girl-watching some men claim to engage in or the invasions of privacy many women perceive in such behavior. Next I discuss multiple social functions of such harassment, and argue that all of these functions can be seen to work together to produce an environment of sexual t…
Bleeding out Loud
Girls in the USA receive mixed messages about menarche: menarche is traumatic and upsetting-but act normal; menarche is an overt symbol of sexual maturity-but also a mysterious, secret event. Girls I interviewed reported another-dualism in their menstrual education. They perceive a clear distinction between two kinds of menstrual knowledge: scientific knowledge about the anatomy and physiological functioning, and what they termed `realistic', pra…
On the Rag on Screen
When Being Female Isn’t Feminine
In this paper, I examine newspaper coverage of Uta Pippig’s 1996 Boston Marathon. Pippig won the Boston Marathon for the third time in a row, in spite of being slowed by menstrual cramps, heavy menstrual flow, and diarrhea. These obstacles and Pippig’s victory over them, as well as her competitors, received disparate treatment in newspaper coverage of the marathon. This coverage provides a rare look at how menstruation is constructed, and erased,…
Stranger Compliments
(1991). Stranger Compliments: The Interpretation of Street Remarks. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 75-93
Pills, Periods, and Postfeminism
Since the English translation of Elsimar Coutinho's Is Menstruation Obsolete? in 1999 and the introduction of cycle-stopping birth control pills in 2003, US women are increasingly advised that menstruation is not necessary for good health. The most widely distributed source of such messages is direct-to-consumer advertisements for birth control pills. The most recent television ads for Seasonique, the leading brand of cycle-stopping contraceptive…
I Don't Have a Great Body, but I Play One on TV
In the body conscious 1980s and 1990s, diet and fitness books featuring celebrities are a popular genre of self-help books. This essay analyzes the rhetorical construction of women's bodies, and the mind-body relationships in these texts
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
Street Harassment
In this article I analyze the social meanings of men's public harassment of women unknown to them. I consider various interpretations of street harassment, such as the harmless girl-watching some men claim to engage in or the invasions of privacy many women perceive in such behavior. Next I discuss multiple social functions of such harassment, and argue that all of these functions can be seen to work together to produce an environment of sexual t…
Stranger Compliments
(1991). Stranger Compliments: The Interpretation of Street Remarks. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 75-93
I Don't Have a Great Body, but I Play One on TV
In the body conscious 1980s and 1990s, diet and fitness books featuring celebrities are a popular genre of self-help books. This essay analyzes the rhetorical construction of women's bodies, and the mind-body relationships in these texts
Bleeding out Loud
Girls in the USA receive mixed messages about menarche: menarche is traumatic and upsetting-but act normal; menarche is an overt symbol of sexual maturity-but also a mysterious, secret event. Girls I interviewed reported another-dualism in their menstrual education. They perceive a clear distinction between two kinds of menstrual knowledge: scientific knowledge about the anatomy and physiological functioning, and what they termed `realistic', pra…
When Being Female Isn’t Feminine
In this paper, I examine newspaper coverage of Uta Pippig’s 1996 Boston Marathon. Pippig won the Boston Marathon for the third time in a row, in spite of being slowed by menstrual cramps, heavy menstrual flow, and diarrhea. These obstacles and Pippig’s victory over them, as well as her competitors, received disparate treatment in newspaper coverage of the marathon. This coverage provides a rare look at how menstruation is constructed, and erased,…
On the Rag on Screen
Capitalizing on the Curse
Although a regular occurrence for millions of women, menstruation is typically represented in US culture as an illness or a shameful episode--to the benefit of an entire industry. Elizabeth Kissling reveals how corporations capitalize on long-standing negative attitudes about menses to sell solutions for nonexistent problems. The commercialization of menstruation, Kissling acknowledges, has in many ways been positive: women embrace readily availa…
Lara Freidenfelds, The Modern Period
Lara Freidenfelds, a historian currently teaching in Women's Studies at Wellesley College, has written a thorough and engaging history of menstruation in twentieth-century USA. Her title, The Modern Period, is more than a succinct description; it cleverly references her discussion throughout of how advancing Progressive values shaped beliefs and practices surrounding menstruation. These Progressive values included faith in scientific rationality,…
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
Pills, Periods, and Postfeminism
Since the English translation of Elsimar Coutinho's Is Menstruation Obsolete? in 1999 and the introduction of cycle-stopping birth control pills in 2003, US women are increasingly advised that menstruation is not necessary for good health. The most widely distributed source of such messages is direct-to-consumer advertisements for birth control pills. The most recent television ads for Seasonique, the leading brand of cycle-stopping contraceptive…
Covered in Ink
Beverly Yuen Thompson’s ethnographic study, Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women, and the Politics of the Body, is a welcome contribution to the surprisingly sparse feminist literature on women with tatt
An Exploratory Study of Heritage Spanish Rhotics
When speaking their heritage language, heritage speakers typically sound much like other “native speakers.” However, recent studies have found that heritage speakers (HSs) are highly variable and produce a range of more and less “native-like” phonetic features. In an effort to stimulate productive new research in this area, this article addresses some of the methodological challenges of heritage language phonetics research, namely dealing with hi…
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.
Sociology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Menstruation (7 works) · Advertising (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works)