Abstract
McCarthy and Lahiri-Dutt illuminate the menstrual experiences of women living in informal settlements in India. Beginning with a critique of menstrual hygiene management (MHM) and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) framings of women’s menstrual practices, they argue that these approaches ignore important spatial, social, and moral meanings attached to menstruating bodies in informal settlements. To substantiate their argument, McCarthy and Lahiri-Dutt take the reader into the jhuggīs and the lives of individual women who have migrated for work to the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) area in Delhi, India. The authors show how, despite the congested and cramped conditions, women traverse the structural deficits of informal living to reconfigure notions of privacy and to navigate changing gender relations.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies |
Editors | Chris Bobel, Inga T. Winkler, Breanne Fahs, Katie Ann Hasson, Elizabeth Arveda Kissling, Tomi-Ann Roberts |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
Publisher | Springer |
Chapter | 3 |
Pages | 15-30 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789811506147 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789811506130 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2020 |