The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo Free

Author: Karen Houppert
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0374526923

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The Curse examines the culture of concealment that surrounds menstruation and the devastating impact such secrecy has on women's physical and psychological health. Karen Houppert combines reporting on the potential safety problems of sanitary products--such as dioxin-laced tampons--with an analysis of the way ads, movies, young-adult novels, and women's magazines foster a "menstrual etiquette" that leaves women more likely to tell their male colleagues about an affair than brazenly carry an unopened tampon down the hall to the bathroom. From the very beginning, industry-generated instructional films sketch out the parameters of acceptable behavior and teach young girl Check The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo our best diet books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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The Curse examines the culture of concealment that surrounds menstruation and the devastating impact such secrecy has on women's physical and psychological health From the very beginning, industry-generated instructional films sketch out the parameters of acceptable behavior and teach young girl

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