La menstruación en la ficción infantil y juvenil: lo personal es político
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https://doi.org/10.17561/ae.v21.n2.6Keywords:
menstruation, children's literature, young adult literature, education, female, emotionAbstract
Despite the everyday nature of the physiological phenomenon, one’s own and other people’s perception of menstruation is internationally related to a negative issue, or considered as a social taboo. This article examines these problems from a gender perspective, and analyses recent literary and artistic texts aimed at children and young adults which try to break away from this reductionist and detrimental vision, and advocate for the recognition of female psycho-emotional processes. In this literature, keys such as the connection with nature, sorority, humour, or multimodality are used for the reappropriation of female power in socio-emotional discourse. Finally, we conclude with a questioning on how to take these problems to the rank of cultural policy, hand in hand with literary fictions.
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