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Culture equals religion?

This article reduces the concept of 'culture' largely to religion. It thereby gives the misleading impression that a) menstruation is 'only' relevant in a religious context and b) that culture largely equates to religion. The article is poorly referenced and it is not clear what sources have been consulted on all religions. Several sections need expanding (e.g. the section on Sikhism)Martinklopstock 08:11, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

some info in one source is wrong

i saw the section on indic religions and saw some incorrect info about the hindu ideas in the buddhanet source - i know its wrong because i'm a hindu - its a bad source. is there anything that can be done about it? the source claims some nonsense about women having a magic spell that destroys prayers by men and makes rice unclean - not true at all. and this didn't creep into buddhism from hinduism - since such an idea in hinduism never existed. so the info in the article is wrong as well. please correct, thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.158.183.6 (talk) 01:00, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Zoroastrianism

If I recall correctly, in Zoroastrianism there's a ritual of using ox's urine to purify women in these times. Maybe someone knows more and wants to add it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.181.184.248 (talk) 02:02, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Social anthropology section

In this section the opening sentence- "In hunter-gatherer cultures that do not use birth control (other than breastfeeding), menstruation is quite a rare event and a woman's menstrual status is loudly signalled". The inference of this statement implies that women in these cultures do not menstruate monthly. This is unscientific and is confusing a possible social perception with reality. ( By way of contrast in "Western" cultures menstruation is not "loudly signalled"). The research supporting this seems to be missing. (?) Ern Malleyscrub (talk) 08:29, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What's your evidence that this is "unscientific"? I read about this in review once. The !Kung women don't menstruate on monthly cycles. Sorry, don't have the reference at hand, but I don't see a problem here, scientifically... 24.21.127.123 (talk) 23:23, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Women at that time were either breastfeeding or pregnant and that prevented menstruation from happening. Also, take in account famines and malnutrition which were also common in ancient societies... that also prevented menstruation from developing. Finally almost every women died from complications during childbirth or from malnutrition and consequently died earlier than men (less oportunity for a menstruation). Women didn't have menstruation mainly because the conditions for it weren't ussually met for the reasons above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.157.133.212 (talk) 07:48, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Literature

A discussion about how menstruation is treated in literature would be appropriate, listing a few random books is not. USchick (talk) 15:52, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Rename to menstruation and culture

I propose to rename this article to "menstruation and culture" because when someone starts typing "menstruation" into the search field, they will see the suggestion for "menstruation and culture". We are also merging to content of menstrual taboo into this article - as soon as someone finds the time to do so. EMsmile (talk) 05:32, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I have done the merger now. I have changed my mind, I guess the title of "culture and menstruation" is equally good as "menstruation and culture". No need to change it. EMsmile (talk) 04:02, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Preparations for merger with menstrual taboo

I've done some basic prep work for the upcoming merger with menstrual taboo. I discovered there was quite some overlap with menstrual synchronization which I have now tried to tidy up (in both articles).EMsmile (talk) 14:47, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've done the merger now. Have had a go at tidying up but more work is needed. EMsmile (talk) 04:01, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you have time to take a look User: Carbon Caryatid, I'd appreciate that, as always. :-) EMsmile (talk) 12:48, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Are any of the books really good - if yes cite them inline

These are the "further reading" links which I think is not particularly helpful. If any of these books should be used for inline citations then let's do so. Otherwise, no need to mention them, or at least not all of them:

Bailey, R.C.; Jenike, MR; Ellison, PT; Bentley, GR; Harrigan, AM; Peacock, NR (1992), "The ecology of birth seasonality among agriculturalists in Central Africa", Journal of Biosocial Science, 24 (3): 393–412, doi:10.1017/s0021932000019957, PMID 1634568
Dornan, Jennifer (2004), "Blood from the moon: Gender ideology and the rise of ancient Maya social complexity", Gender and History, 16 (2): 459–475, doi:10.1111/j.0953-5233.2004.00348.x
Foster, Johanna (1996), "Menstrual time: The sociocognitive mapping of "the menstrual cycle"", Sociological Forum, 11 (2): 523–547, doi:10.1007/BF02408391
Stevens, Jr, P. (2006), "Women's aggressive use of genital power in Africa", Transcultural Psychiatry, 43 (4): 592–599, doi:10.1177/1363461506070784, PMID 17166948
Menstruation, A Cultural History ed. by Andrew Shail and Gillian Howie. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, ISBN 978-1-4039-3935-7
Knight, Chris (1991). "Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture". Yale University Press. JSTOR j.ctt5vkr5f. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World. Judy Grahn. Beacon Press, 1993.
Pepinster, Catherine (5 November 2017). "Gallery aims to lift lid on taboo over menstruation". the Guardian. Retrieved 6 June 2018.

EMsmile (talk) 04:01, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

More perspectives

I added relevant activism events in China to incorporate more geographic perspectives. I could see that the article doesn't have many introductions to what happened and is happening in other countries and areas. Hope you join us to edit this article if you know about and understand how menstrual events operate in your country, thanks :))) Gypsy087 (talk) 12:25, 17 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

menstrual inequity section

this section was moved from the original menstruation article. does it make sense or are there any revisions to be made? i originally wanted to comment more on the problematic nature of nadya okamoto, but that section was removed. Homedpo (talk) 03:17, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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