Essays about: "Antonia Sophia Von Buttlar"

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  1. 1. Challenges in Challenging Menstrual Discourse: An Inquiry into the Nature of Dominating Social Discourse on Menstruation, and the Human Rights Agenda to Challenge its Effects

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Antonia Sophia von Buttlar; [2020]
    Keywords : Menstrual Discourse; Stigmatization; Medicalization; Commercialization; United Nations Human Rights Agenda;

    Abstract : Recent developments have seen a rise in empirical attempts to challenge the persistently negative sociocultural attitudes toward menstruation. The thesis proposes a Foucauldian feminist conception, as well as the identification of the three elements stigmatization, medicalization and commercialization, to provide a comprehensive theoretical framework conceptualizing dominant menstrual discourse and its effects, based on which the empirical contemporary UN human rights agenda on the topic is approached. READ MORE