Bloody Marie

The sources of happiness for my research

Over the time even me, myself and I, who doesn’t read that much, collected a growing list of thought-provoking texts, entire books, testimonials that all somehow relate to menstrual cycle tracking. I categorized my bibliography in three main clickable blocks. If you have trouble finding access to a text of your interest, feel free to ping me. Maybe I can help out and otherwise: let’s be helpless together!

• Sociology of health, illness and medicine
• Gender Studies, menstruation, fertilities and sexualities
• Technologies, cybercyber & health tracking

Sociology of health, illness and medicine

One of my heroines in this section clearly is Deborah Lupton and her great research about digital self-tracking. Check out her blog and follow her on twitter.

• Barker, Kristin K. (2013): Electronic Support Groups, Patient-Consumers, and Medicalization: The Case of Contested Illness. In: Peter Conrad und Valerie Leiter (Hg.): The sociology of health & illness. Critical perspectives. 9th ed. New York, NY: Worth Publishers, S. 180–196.
• Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth (1994): Gesundheit und Verantwortung im Zeitalter der Gentechnologie. In: Ulrich Beck und Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim (Hg.): Riskante Freiheiten. 1. Aufl. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, S. 316–335.
• Conrad, Peter (Hg.) (2007): The medicalization of society. On the transformation of human conditions into treatable disorders. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins Univ. Press.
• Degele, Nina (2008): Normale Exklusivitäten. Schönheitshandeln, Schmerznormalisieren, Körper inszenieren. In: Paula-Irene Villa (Hg.): Schön normal. Manipulationen am Körper als Technologien des Selbst. Bielefeld: Transcript, S. 67–84.
• Duden, Barbara (1987): Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.
• Foucault, Michel (1993): The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Ungekürzte Ausg., 8. - 9. Tsd. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl. (7400 : Wissenschaft).
• Lupton, Deborah (2012): Medicine as culture. Illness, disease and the body. 3rd ed. London, Thousand Oaks: Sage.
• Lupton, Deborah (2014a): The commodification of patient opinion: the digital patient experience economy in the age of big data. In: Sociology of Health & Illness 36 (6), S. 856–869.
• Wetzel, Janice Wood (1991): Universal Mental Health Classification Systems: Reclaiming Women’s Experience. In: Affilia 6 (3).
• Zemp, Elisabeth (2015): Geschlechterforschung in Medizin und Public Health. Editorial Medizin – Gesundheit – Geschlecht. In: Freiburger Zeitschrift für Geschlechterstudien 21 (2), S. 5–14.

Gender studies, menstruation, fertilities and sexualities

Here you find a lot of texts on gender studies in relation to menstruation, fertilities and sexualities. By the way, I tend to use plurals in order to highlight the diversities of experiences & the heterogeneities of the concepts. Johnston-Robledo’s idea on the experiences of menstruation are definitely central to my thesis, so check out “the menstrual mark”. Dive into Marie Stopes’ “married love” to know more about historical views of menstruation a century ago in England.

• Annandale, Ellen; Clark, Judith (1996): What is gender? Feminist theory and the sociology of human reproduction. In: Sociology of Health & Illness 18 (1), S. 17–44.
• Butler, Judith (1990): Gender trouble. Feminism and the subversion of identity. 17. Aufl., dt. Erstausg. New York: Routledge (Thinking gender, 1722 = N.F., Bd. 722).
• Connell, Raewyn (2012): Gender, health and theory: Conceptualizing the issue, in local and world perspective. In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (11), S. 1675–1683
• Johnston-Robledo, Ingrid; Chrisler, Joan (2013): The Menstrual Mark: Menstruation as Social Stigma. In: Sex Roles 68 (1-2), S. 9–18.
• Johnston-Robledo, Ingrid; Stubbs, Margaret L. (2013): Positioning Periods: Menstruation in Social Context: An Introduction to a Special Issue. Introduction. In: Sex Roles 68, S. 1–8.
• McNeill, Leila (2014): Dr. Anna Fischer-Dückelmann as Naturopath and Physician for Women in Imperial Germany. Master’s thesis. University of Oklahoma. Department of History of Science.
• Schooler, Deborah; Ward, L. Monique; Merriwether, Ann; Caruthers, Allison S. (2005): Cycles of shame: menstrual shame, body shame, and sexual decision-making. In: The Journal of Sex Research 42 (4), S.324–334.
• Stopes, Marie (1918): Married Love. United Kingdom. You may find it here.

Technologies, cybercyber & health tracking

And here are all the texts that deal with technologies, #cybercyber and develop somewhat crazy ideas about digital societies. Don’t worry too much about Donna Haraway and her beloved cyborg manifesto. Read it though!

• Bigoni, Astrid Maria (2015): Tracking Menstruation digitally: How women, digital devices and bodies interact. In Ada: Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, no. 7, State of review. You may find it here.
• boyd, danah; Marwick, Alice (2011): Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens’ Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies. A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society. Oxford Internet Institute, 22.09.2011. You may find it here.
• Brophy, Jessica E. (2010): Developing a corporeal cyberfeminism: beond cyberutopia. In: New Media & Society 12 (6), S. 929 –945.
• Döring, Nicola (2000): Geschlechterkonstruktionen und Netzkommunikation. In: Caja Thimm (Hg.): Soziales im Netz. Sprache, Beziehungen und Kommunikationskulturen im Internet. Opladen [u.a.]: Westdt. Verl., S. 182 –207.
• Draude, Claude; Döring, Daniela (2012): Körper nach Zahlen. Vom Maßnehmen und der Simulation von Menschlichkeit. Gendered Objects. Wissens- und Geschlechterordnungen der Dinge. In: Bulletin-Texte, Nr. 38, S. 61–87.
• Haraway, Donna (1995): Die Neuerfindung der Natur. Primaten, Cyborgs und Frauen. Unter Mitarbeit von Carmen Hammer. Frankfurt/Main: Campus-Verl.
• Lupton, Deborah (2014a): The commodification of patient opinion: the digital patient experience economy in the age of big data. In: Sociology of Health & Illness 36 (6), S. 856–869.
• Lupton, Deborah (2014b): Self-tracking Modes: Reflexive Self-Monitoring and Data Practices. Paper for the ‘Imminent Citizenships: Personhood and Identity Politics in the Informatic Age’ workshop. University of Canberra, Canberra. News & Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Design. You may find it here.
• Moglia, Michelle L.; Nguyen, Henry V.; Chyjek, Kathy; Chen, Katherine T.; Castano, Paula M. (2016): Evaluation of Smartphone Menstrual Cycle Tracking Applications Using an Adapted APPLICATIONS Scoring System. In: Obstetrics & Gynecology 127 (6), S. 1153–1160.
• Paasonen, Susanna (2011): Revisiting cyberfeminism. In: Communications 36 (3). DOI: 10.1515/comm.2011.017.
• Williamson, Ben (2015): Algorithmic skin: health-tracking technologies, personal analytics and the biopedagogies of digitized health and physical education. In: Sport, Education and Society 20 (1), S.133–151.