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COLLECTION Identifier: MC 1225

Menstruation collection of Chris Bobel, 1992-2010

Overview

Buttons, stickers, printed material, and other ephemera collected by Chris Bobel documenting organizations and campaigns related to menstruation education, destigmatizing menstruation, and menstruation advocacy issues such as anti-tampon campaigns and the promotion of environmentally friendly feminine hygiene products.

Dates

  • Creation: 1992-2010

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials in English.

Access Restrictions:

Access. Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Chris Bobel as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.

Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.

Extent

.63 linear feet ((1+1/2 file boxes) plus 1 folio+ folder)

The menstruation collection of Chris Bobel includes buttons, stickers, printed material, and other ephemera collected by Bobel documenting organizations and campaigns related to menstruation education, destigmatizing menstruation, and menstruation advocacy issues such as anti-tampon campaigns and the promotion of environmentally friendly feminine hygiene products.

BIOGRAPHY

Chris Bobel is a Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, focusing on critical menstruation studies, activism and social movements, body studies, and critical trauma studies. She holds a BA in speech communication from Miami University, and MA in speech communication from the University of Maine, and a PhD in urban studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Managed Body: Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South, The Paradox of Natural Mothering, and New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation. With Samantha Kwan, she also co-edited Embodied Resistance: Breaking the Rules, Challenging the Norms and Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, Transformations. She is a past president of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.

Physical Location

Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Accession number: 2022-M181

The menstruation collection of Chris Bobel was given to the Schlesinger Library by Chris Bobel in March 2022.

Processing Information

Processed: March 2023

By: Johanna Carll

The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.  Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.

Title
Bobel, Chris, 1963-. Menstruation collection of Chris Bobel, 1992-2010: A Finding Aid
Author
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Language of description
eng
Sponsor
Processing of this collection was made possible by the Alice Jeannette Ward Fund.
EAD ID
sch02203

Repository Details

Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository

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