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Cross-cultural comparison. --- Menarche --- Menstruation --- Menstruation. --- Puberty --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Ethnology.

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What woman forgets discovering her first period? First Blood examines the ways in which women from various countries? India, Sri Lanka, England, the Philippines, Greece, Italy, Uganda, Indonesia, Fiji, Chile, Ukraine, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong? recall this moment of menarche and what it meant to them, their families, and their societies. What is the mystique of women's first blood? Blood is blood? or is it? What is the history of menstruation, and does this history belong to women? Who created the meanings associated with menarche, and why? Are there marked cultural differences? Have meanings changed over time? First Blood answers these questions and investigates beliefs and traditions surrounding menarche, including the concepts of uncleanness, ceremony, secrecy, and lore still existing in many parts of the world. The influence of the sanitary hygiene industry is also explored, as is the role of the pharmaceutical industry in making menstruation optional.

Evolution (Biology) -- Juvenile literature. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Evolution. --- Physical Anthropology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Human evolution. --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Origin --- Menarche. --- Menstruation --- Menstruation (in religion, folklore, etc.) --- Puberty --- Human evolution --- Sociology --- menarche --- menstruation --- first menstruation --- cultural attitudes to menstruation --- menstruation and religion --- folklore about menstruation --- historical attitudes to menstruation --- implications of menstruation --- beliefs about menstruation --- Menarche --- Religious aspects.

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While menopause is a universal fact of life, the physiological and psychological effects for women are not the same in all cultures. In this comparative and cross-cultural ethnographic study, Beyene examines the concept and experience of menopause among Greek and Mayan peasant women, uncovering some startling information. Available research and experience thus far suggests that non-Western, nonindustrialized women often do not have the same psychological or physiological reactions to menopause as Western, industrialized women do.By comparing the reproductive histories of one group of peasant women to another, the author makes it possible to isolate historical, cultural and environmental factors relating to variations or similarities in response to menopause. Her findings underscore the plasticity of the human aging experience, particularly among women. The book presents a biocultural view linking the experience of menopause to diet and fertility patterns, and provides new insights and hypotheses on the reproductive cycle and aging in women.

Menopause --- Menarche --- Maya women. --- Women --- Sex role --- Women peasants --- Nature and nurture. --- Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Menarche. --- Menopause. --- Change of Life, Female --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Cultural Characteristics --- Culture --- Environment and genetics --- Environment and heredity --- Genetics and environment --- Heredity and environment --- Nature --- Nature versus nurture --- Nurture and nature --- Genetics --- Heredity --- Human beings --- Peasant women --- Peasants --- Rural women --- Mayan women --- Mayas --- Women, Maya --- Menstruation --- Puberty --- Change of life in women --- Female change of life --- Female climacteric --- Climacteric --- Nurture --- Effect of environment on --- Women's Rights --- Social Science --- Political Science --- Women's rights --- Social science --- Political science