Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Throughout the 20th century, the marketing and design of menstrual products often stigmatized menstruation as an unmentionable bodily affliction. Menstruation was wrapped in euphemism: that time of the month, a weakness, a nuisance. “Feminine hygiene” products offered sanitation, invisibility, and freedom—but at what cost? Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity shows how marketing and social norms around menstruation create a cultural construct with power to shape people’s lives. 

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Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

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