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Emergent Technologies in Menstrual Paraphernalia in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain.
| Title: | Emergent Technologies in Menstrual Paraphernalia in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain. |
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| Authors: | Al-Khalidi, Alia1 |
| Source: | Journal of Design History. 2001, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p257-273. 17p. 4 Diagrams. |
| Abstract: | This paper foregrounds the objects and technologies that established the precursors of the early material culture of the modem menstrual products industry. The subject is situated in the context of dominant constructions of sanctioned female dress within the wider menstrual management discourse, as established in the treatises of the prominent nineteenth-century physician, Edward Tilt. As antecedents to the commodification of mass-manufactured disposable menstrual absorbents in Britain, early enterprise and innovations in emergent designs for menstrual paraphernalia from the late 1850s are shown to reflect the shifting imperatives concerning the management of menstrual discharge. Manifest in the negotiation of comfort with efficiency, the genealogy of such contraptions will be shown to articulate the way in which the technologies of menstrual management etiquette were mechanically and materially reconfigured and the female body became a site for the deployment of such innovations from the mid-nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | *Fashion, Feminine hygiene products, Women's health -- Equipment & supplies, Hygiene products, Feminine hygiene products industry, Technological innovations |
| Geographic Terms: | United Kingdom |
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| ISSN: | 09524649 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jdh/14.4.257 |
| Database: | Art & Architecture Complete |