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Nikita Arora 이화여자대학교 아시아여성학센터 2017 이화여자대학교 아시아여성학센터 학술대회자료집 Vol.2017 No.7
Menstruation is one of the oldest biological and social phenomenons that possess the potential to cut across continents and societies. Quite often, it has been associated with emotions of awe and fear, and worship and sacredness in primitive societies that had no means and knowledge of understanding the biology of menstruation. However, how it transformed into a taboo subject, particularly in India, where traces of celebrating menstruation can still be found, demands speculation. Considering menstrual taboos intrinsically related to their societies and practices, this paper tends to investigate and unravel the relationship between menstrual myths/stigmas, the Hindu religion, and the times of their origin and propagation. It attempts to establish a parallel relationship between the development of patriarchal economies and menstrual stigmas, between male domination and defamation of menstruation. Further, it tends to problematize the contemporary scenario, where despite significant medical interventions in reproductive and sexual health, menstrual taboos enjoy an upper hand in menstruators and non-menstruators knowledge about menstruation. The second aspect of this research paper focuses on the consequences of menstrual taboos, for which I will refer to the research conducted by Happy to Bleed as well as other secondary sources. The underlying logic and understanding is that the stigmas and silence surrounding menstruation, on one hand, foster a sense of inferiority and substandardness among women and other menstruators. Analyzed psychologically, menstrual taboos have the ability to play the role of a catalyst in persuading women to internalize the status of other been accorded to them by patriarchy; they can be and are in fact tools of silencing women and controlling their sexuality and mobility by means of religious beliefs. On the other hand, this silence and shame leads to a dangerous lack of awareness about menstrual health and a large scale absence of hygienic menstrual care products among menstruators. This is to say that while menstruation remains a taboo topic, market dominates menstrual health of individuals and while doing so, it not only retains the prejudices surrounding menstruation, but also puts at grave risk the health of menstruators as well as that of ecology. Therefore, the paper will attempt to bridge the gaps between menstrual taboos, its various manifestations, and its implications on individuals and society as a whole.
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