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The Assault on Ignorance: Teaching Menstrual Etiquette in England, c. 1920s to 1960s (2001)
Journal Article
Strange, J.-M. (2001). The Assault on Ignorance: Teaching Menstrual Etiquette in England, c. 1920s to 1960s. Social History of Medicine, 14(2), 247-265. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/14.2.247

At the end of the nineteenth century, medical paradigms of menstruation were located in a language of pathology and disability. Women were, therefore, perceived as incapable of competing with men in the world of education, work, and economics on acco... Read More about The Assault on Ignorance: Teaching Menstrual Etiquette in England, c. 1920s to 1960s.