Tax on Blood: Access, Boundaries, & Class in the Discourses on Menstruation in India

Abstract

This study examines the discourses and practices around menstruation amongst Hindu and Muslim women with mixed caste backgrounds, but shared urban and emerging middle class identities in Gwalior, India. Drawing on ethnographic... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Priyanjali Sinha '18

Topic Area

Gender

Session

S2-220 » Women Negotiating the Margins (11:15am - Friday, 20th April, MBH 220)