Restriction and Renewal, Pollution and Power, Constraint and Community: The Paradoxes of Religious Women's Experiences of Menstruation

Sex Roles

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 121-131

  Dunnavant, Nicki C ^a   Roberts, Tomi Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Feminism; Menstruation; Religion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872669940     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-012-0132-8     Document Type: Article

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