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Why do women so often feel uneasy about menstruation? Why is it so thoroughly hidden from public view? Why do young girls still have to learn about it in fear and shame? Why are new products endlessly created to enable the secrecy to be yet more effective: now, the individually-wrapped sanitary towel!
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© 1990 Sophie Katherine Laws
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Laws, S. (1990). Introduction. In: Campling, J. (eds) Issues of Blood. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21176-0_1
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