8. References. Menstrual Activism Goes Big -- The Zoom and the Wide Angle: Discourse, Frame Analysis, and MHM -- The Culture of Concealment, the Menstrual Mandate, and the Indelible Menstrual Mark -- Problems, Solutions, and What Lies Beneath -- Snapshot One "I Couldn't Imagine..." -- Snapshot Two "Whose Daughter Is the One Who Is Careless?" -- The Tech Fix and the Good Body -- Theoretical Framework: From the Ground Up -- The Managed Body? Developing Girls? -- Plan of the Book -- References -- pt. I Context -- 2. The Girling of Development -- "The Most Powerful Force of Change on the Planet Is a Girl" -- Introducing the Girl Effect -- "Investing in Girls Is Smart Economics" -- The Sustainable Development Goals, Developing Girls, and MHM -- Toward the "MHM Effect": One Child, One Teacher, One Book, One Pen ... and One Pad -- Feminist Critiques of the Girl Effect -- References -- 3. Making Menstruation Matter in the Global South: Mapping a Critical History -- The Sticky Challenge of Defining MHM -- The MHM Landscape by the Numbers -- Where in the World Is MHM? -- What Are the Types of Organizations Doing MHM? -- What Are the Programmatic Foci of MHM Organizations? -- Who Is Doing MHM? -- So When Did This All Begin? A Brief Origin Story of MHM -- 1985 -- 2004: The Lonely Early Years -- Mid-Late 2000s: "Glaring Needs" Exposed -- 2011 -- 2013: International Actors Jump on Board and the Evidence Base Builds -- 2014 -- 2017: The Mainstreaming of MHM -- Global Dis/Connections: Parallel Activist Agendas in One Global Movement -- References -- pt. II Framing the Problem: Stories of Risk, Risk of Stories -- 4. "Can You Imagine?" Making the Case for a Bloody Crisis -- Can You Imagine? -- The Spectacle of Chaupadi -- Generating Empathy or Solidifying Difference? -- MHM's Problem Frames -- Frame Two: Menstruation Is a Hygienic Crisis -- Frame Three: Girls Lack Access to "Appropriate" Menstrual Care -- Sloppy Science and Slippery Citations -- So What? Making the MHM Case -- Claim One: Girls Are Getting Sick -- Claim Two: Girls Are Dropping Out of School -- Intervene First and Ask Questions Later -- References -- 5. The Spectacle of the "Third World Girl" and the Politics of Rescue -- Time to Ask Why -- Framing Assumptions, Amplifying Stereotypes -- The White Savior Industrial Complex -- Poor Indians, Rich Westerners -- The Danger of the Single Story -- The Risk of Stories: From Precarity to Spectacle -- Saving Brown Girls from Tradition -- Enter the s/Heroes -- The Girl We Listen To? -- Don't Touch the Pickle, but Do Buy the Pad -- References -- pt. III Framing the Solution: Developing the "Good Body" -- 6. "Dignity Can't Wait": Building a Bridge to Human Rights -- The (Raced and Classed) Body Dignified -- Forging the Human Rights Connection -- Making Menstruation a Non-issue -- Concealing Our Way to Dignity -- Operationalizing Dignity Discourse -- The Emergence of Dignity in Human Rights Documents -- Joining Human Rights and Health -- How MHM Does Dignity -- Hygienic and Protected, Secret and Safe: NGOs and Social Businesses -- Something to Bleed On: The International NGOs and Researchers -- Advancing the Goal of Discrete Management: The Gray and Scholarly Literature -- Must We Build Our Worlds on Shame and Disgust? -- References -- 7. Disciplining Girls Through the Technological Fix: Modernity, Markets, Materials -- The Pad (or the Cup) Is the Thing -- To Market, To Market -- Containing the Animal Body -- Producing Efficiency, Consuming Femininity -- Disciplining the Body to Educate the Mind -- Good Bodies=Good Citizens -- The Worst Thing That Can Happen -- Menstrual Products as Technological Fixes -- Fault Tolerance -- Priming the Pump? -- Tidier Girls, Dirtier Planet? -- Who Conserves? Who Pays? -- How to Be Amazing -- References -- 8. Beyond the Managed Body: Putting Menstrual Literacy at the Center -- Reframing the Problem: Menstrual Stigma Compromises Girls' Quality of Life -- Send in the Feminists -- Link Menstrual Health and Reproductive Justice -- Privilege Local Voices and Local Knowledge -- (Continue to) Build the Evidence Base -- Start with What We Know ... -- Reframing the Solution: 360ʻ of Menstrual Literacy for Everyone -- Read the Body -- Take Your Time -- Teach the Whole Cycle as the Fifth Vital Sign -- What's Normal? What's Not? -- Consider the Messy Matter of Myths and Limitations -- Menstrual Secrecy as Protective? -- Invest in "Trained and Trusted" Teachers -- Toward a Better, Stronger MHM Movement -- References.
Summary:
"The Managed Body is an invested critique of the discourses of 'Menstrual Hygiene Management' (MHM) -- a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in low and middle income countries. Bobel shows how MHM organizations frame the issues by claiming menstruating girls encounter 'a hygienic crisis' that authorizes rescue. Faced by the challenges of capturing attention and directing resources, MHM advocates often inadvertently rely upon weak evidence and spectacularized representations to promote a product-centered, consumerist agenda that actually accommodates more than it resists the core problem of menstrual stigma."--Page 4 of cover.
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