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Author Laura Fingerson reveals that while teens have negative feelings about menstruation, teen girls use their experiences of menstruation as a source of embodied power in their interactions with other girls and with boys. The book extends our theoretical and analytical understanding of youth, gender, power, and embodiment by providing a more balanced view of adolescent social life.

Girls in Power offers a fascinating and unique look at the social aspects of menstruation in the lives of adolescent .

Girls in Power offers a fascinating and unique look at the social aspects of menstruation in the lives of adolescent girls—and also in the lives of adolescent boys. Author Laura Fingerson reveals that while teens have negative feelings about menstruation, teen girls use their experiences of menstruation as a source of embodied power in their interactions with other girls and with boys.

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Albany: State University of New York Press

Albany: State University of New York Press. 190 pp. ISBN 0-7914-6900-X. Despite its ambiguous title, Girls in Power offers a compelling look at girls' and boys' collective talk about menstruation and the body. Its contribution lies in its emphasis that understandings of menstruation (and, subsequently, social power between girls and boys) are constantly negotiated and shift in various social settings and contexts.

A consideration of menstruation in the lives of teenage girls-and in the lives of teenage boys. ISBN13:9780791469002. Release Date:August 2006. She also explores how boys deal with their own reduced power.

Girls in Power: Gender, Body, and Menstruation in Adolescence. Books about menstruation are few and far between. By Laura Fingerson, Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 2006. Authors and affiliations. First Online: 01 December 2007. Thus, it was exciting to find two new volumes, with very different approaches to the topic, published in the same year.