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 story of continuity and change within the women's movement.

Through her critical ethnographic lens, Bobel focuses on debates central to...

Embodied Resistance engages the rich and complex range of society's contemporary -body outlaws---people from many social locations who violate norms about the private, the repellent, or the forbidden. This collection ventures beyond the conventional focus on the -disciplined body- and instead, examines conformity from the perspective of resisters. By balancing accessibly written original ethnographic research with personal narratives, Embodied Resistance provides a window into the everyday lives of those who defy or violate socially constructed body rules and conventions.

Embodied Resistance engages the rich and complex range of society's contemporary -body outlaws---people from many social locations who violate norms about the private, the repellent, or the forbidden. This collection ventures beyond the conventional focus on the -disciplined body- and instead, examines conformity from the perspective of resisters. By balancing accessibly written original ethnographic research with personal narratives, Embodied Resistance provides a window into the everyday lives of those who defy or violate socially constructed body rules and conventions.