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Dec 22, 2017
Abstract
Through history and several cultures, women’s bodies and everything related to their sexual and biological processes has had various interpretations, judgements and social stigmatization. Particularly about menstruation, it is interpreted as a symbol of disgrace filthiness and impurity, and women in their bleeding days were rejected or isolated. Currently, menstruation is a social taboo, being censored and demoted as something purely personal. The latter works from power relationships controlling discourses around sexuality and women’s bodies. Linked to what was said before, this work tries to establish how this patriarchal power is exerted over menstruation and female bodies through a critical analysis on different posters located in women’s bathrooms in Santiago.
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