Truth Scribbled in Blood

Women's Work, Menstruation and Poetry

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12309985
AutoresJ Sayers (0000-0002-6289-3436, Massey University, autor correspondente), Deborah Jones (0000-0002-6719-524X)
Ano2014
Volume22
Fascículo2
Páginas94-111
Data de publicação2014-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGender Work and Organization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0968-6673 • E-ISSN: 1468-0432
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gwao.12059
OpenAlexW1875353000
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas26
Referências 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