Soiled Identity
Memory-Work Narratives of Menstruation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4218099 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenda Koutroulis (75 Henry Street, Windsor 3181, Victoria, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 187-205 |
| Publication date | 2001-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/136345930100500203 |
| OpenAlex | W2129215483 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article focuses on the narratives and discussion produced through a memory-work study about menstruation with a collective of eight Australian women. Unfolding to exhibit a complex and contradictory experience of the body and menstruation, the narratives show that the body of a menstruating woman has cultural meanings inscribed that function to ensure the embodied experience of a menstruating woman is unfavourably different from the embodied experience of a non-menstruating woman. These women's reflections on and discussion about their experiences express differences in the symbolic ordering of menstrual fluid as clean or dirty. The complex relationship between the meanings ascribed to menstruation and the social consequences of menstruating, especially the changed subjectivity and associations to the body was identified
Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Inscribed figure · Literature · Menstruation · Narrative · Sociology · Subjectivity · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · Medicine · Menstrual Health and Disorders · Psychology · Social Psychology
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A fertility app for two? Women’s perspectives on sharing conceptive fertility work with male partners
Narrative health research
Stigma, menstrual etiquette, and identity work
This is what the truth is
Beyond knowledge
The etiquette of endometriosis
Exploring the Gendering of Space by Using Memory Work as a Reflexive Research Method
Dancing with the Wind
Issues of Blood
Stigma
From Menarche to Menopause
Purity and Danger
The Body and Social Theory
Men's and women's evaluations of menstrual-related excuses
Opening doors and getting rid of shame
Reflections on the Role of Personal Narrative in Social Science Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography . Timothy Dow Adams Jessie Bernard
Woman's Body, Woman's Right
The Fantasy of Dirt
Gender and Discourse
Purity and Danger
The civilizing process
Notes towards a corporeal feminism
The social construction of premenstrual syndrome
Health research in practice, volume two
The End of the Body
Regulating Bodies
The expressive body
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |