An approach to the subject of menstruation which claims that women's feelings about their periods are shaped by men's attitudes and the imposition of their views on women. Sophie Law's research covered men as lovers, fathers, husbands, doctors and "experts".

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SOPHIE LAWS is Research Worker/Co-ordinator for Physical Disability Services for West Lambeth Health Authority. She has been a feminist activist for many years, with a particular interest in women's health issues, and is a founder member of the Trouble and Strife collective. She is co-author of Seeing Red: the Politics of Premenstrual Tension and Living with Sickle Cell Disease.

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Book Title: Issues of Blood
Book Subtitle: The Politics of Menstruation
Authors: Sophie Laws
Editors: Jo Campling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21176-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-48234-6Published: 01 January 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-21176-0Published: 01 January 1991
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 244
Topics: Gender Studies, General Psychology, Popular Science in Psychology

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