Cash Flow The businesses of menstruation

• Auteur principal: Røstvik, Camilla Mørk (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: London UCL Press 2022
• Sujets: Gender studies: women; Sociology; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Economic history; Business studies: general; Women's health; women's health; menstruation; economics; business; history; womens studies; anthropology; sociology; womens history
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Résumé

The menstrual product industry has played a large role in shaping the last hundred years of menstrual culture, from technological innovation to creative advertising, education in classrooms and as employers of thousands in factories around the world. How much do we know about this sector and how has it changed in later decades? What constitutes 'the industry', who works in it, and how is it adapting to the current menstrual equity movement? Cash Flow provides a new academic study of the menstrual corporate landscape that links its twentieth-century origins to the current 'menstrual moment'. Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival materials and interviews with industry insiders, each chapter examines one key company and brand: Saba in Norway, Essity in Sweden, Tambrands in the Soviet Union, Procter & Gamble in Britain and Europe, Kimberly-Clark in North America, and start-ups Clue and Thinx. By engaging with these corporate collections, the book highlights how the industry has survived as its consumers continually change.

ISBN

111.9781787355385
9781787355385
9781787355446
9781787355569
9781787355682
9781787355750

Accès

Open Access