‘Responsible Body’: Menstrual Education Films and Sex Education in the United States and Scotland, 1970s–1980s.
Affiliation:
1. Center for Women's Health and Human Rights, Suffolk University
Abstract
The provision of menstrual products for free has become one part of the larger push by menstrual activists to make menstrual equity a global priority. Menstrual equity includes addressing and solving concerns that connect menstruation to public health issues, gender equality, and access to complete and comprehensive health and menstrual education. This last point is the focus of this paper. The Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill in Scotland did not emerge out of nowhere; neither did legislation across the US that addresses period poverty. Rather, these legal advances are the latest in a complicated and complex fight for menstrual education and healthcare. The Period Products Act’s emphasis on ‘access’—access to education and to menstrual products—is rooted in Scottish sex and menstrual education. This seemingly subtle difference from American menstrual education reveals how access has historically been integrated into Scottish menstrual education, a comparison particularly visible in the American and Scottish films studied here, Naturally … a Girl (1973) and Having a Period: Menstruation (1980), respectively.
Publisher
Open Library of the Humanities
Subject
Sociology and Political Science,General Arts and Humanities,Anthropology,Cultural Studies
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