Politics of Female Sanitary Products: a gaze upon sexual bodies

Author(s): Jiaqi Wang

Type: Written pitch

Department: Department for Gender Studies

Exhibit no: 41


This research aimed to rethink menstruation taboo in contemporary Chinese society by scrutinizing the operation of bio-power and its influences on shaping the dominant menstruation discourses. Sanitary products, as a foci, significantly involve and reflect politics of menstruation and of female sexual bodies.