Growing Up Sexually(Bibliographies)

2/Menarche

Note: this bibliography may be updated monthly.

Amann-Gainotti, M. & Antenore, C. (1990) Development of internal body image from childhood to early adolescence, Percept & Motor Skills 71,2:387-93
Aapola, Sinikka (1994) ‘Ne on alkaneet! Muistoja ensimmäisistä kuukautisista’ [‘It has started! Memoriesof Menarche’], Naistutkimus – Kvinnoforskning 7,3:4-14
Amann-Gainotti, M. (1986) Sexual socialization during early adolescence: the menarche, Adolescence 21(83):703-10
Amann-Gainotti, M. (1988) La rappresentazione dell’interno del corpo: uno studio evolutivo, Arch Psicol, Neurol & Psychichia 4:480-98
Amann-Gainotti, M. (1989) Knowledge and beliefs about the body interior during early adolescence: the case of menstruations, Acta Paedopsychia 52,2:143-9
Amann-Gainotti, M., Di Prospero, B. & Nenci, A. M. (1989) [Anatomical knowledge in relation to the female genitalia in adolescent girls], Minerva Ginecol 41,5:231-5
Amann-Gainotti, M., Nenci, A. M. & Di Prospero, B. (1989) Adolescent girls’ representations of their genital inner space, Adolescence 24,94:473-80
Barua, I. (1996) Menarche in north-east Indian communities: some bio-social aspects, South Asian Anthropologist 17,2:65-72
Baumann, M. (1999) Thinking the young woman’s bleeding: early discursive investigation of menarche, Lundahl, L. & Popkewitz, T. (Eds.) Education, Research, and Society: Critical Perspectives from American and Swedish Graduate Students. Monographs on Teacher Education and Research, Vol 3. Umeå University, p151-65
Beausang, C. C. & Razor, A. G. (2000) Young Western women’s experiences of menarche and menstruation, Health Care for Women Int 21,6:517-28
Beyene, Y. (1989) From Menarche to Menopause: Reproductive Lives of Peasant Women in Two Cultures. Albany, NY: SUNY Albany Press
Britton, C. J. (1996) Learning about “the Curse”: An Anthropological Perspective on Experiences of Menstruation, Women’s Stud Int Forum 19,6, 12:645-53
Brookes, B. & Tennant, M. (1998) Making Girls Modern: Pakeha Girls and Menstruation in New Zealand 1930 – 70, Women’s Hist Rev 7,4:565-82
Brooks-Gunn, J. & Petersen. A. C. (1983) The Experience of Menarche from a Developmental Perspective, inBrooks-Gunn J. & Petersen, A. C. (Eds.) Girls at Puberty. New York: Plenum Press, p155-77
Brooks-Gunn, J. & Ruble, D. N. (1980) Menarche: The interaction of physiological, cultural, and social factors, in Dan, A. J., Graham, E. A. & Beecher, C. P. (Eds.) The Menstrual Cycle: A Synthesis of Interdisciplinary Research, Vol. 1. New York: Springer, p141–59
Brooks-Gunn, J. & Ruble, D. N. (1982) Developmental processes in the experience of menarche, in Baum, A. & Singer, J. E. (Eds.) Handbook of Psychology and Health. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Vol. 2, p117-47
Brooks-Gunn, J. & Ruble, D. N. (1982) The Development of Menstrual-Related Beliefs and Behaviors during Early Adolescence, Child Developm 53,6:1567-77
Brooks-Gunn, J. & Ruble, D. N. (March, 1979) The Social and Psychological Meaning of Menarche. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, San Francisco, CA
Brooks-Gunn, J., Warren, M. P., Samelson, M. & Fox, R. (1986) Physical similarity of and disclosure of menarcheal status to friends: Effects of age and pubertal status, J Early Adolescence 6,1:3-14
Brown, J. K. (1963) A cross-cultural study of female initiation rites, Am Anthropol 65:837-53
Brumberg, J. J. (1993a) ‘Something happens to girls’: menarche and the emergence of the American hygienic imperative, J Hist Sex 4:99-127
Brumberg, J. J. (1993b) Learning to Menstruate The American Way, 1850-1950, in Ras, Marion de & Lunenberg, Mieke (Eds.) Girls, girlhood and girls' studies in transition. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis
Brumberg, J. J. (1997) The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Random House
Burrows, Anne & Johnson, Sally (2005) Girls’ experiences of menarche and menstruation, Journal of Reproductive & Infant Psychology 23,3:235-249
Castañeda, X., García, C. & Langer, A. (1996) Ethnography of fertility and menstruation in rural Mexico, Soc Sci Med 42,1:133-40
Chadwick, M. (1931) Menstruationsangst, Zeitschr f Psychoanal Päd 5:184-9
Charlesworth, D. (2001) Paradoxical constructions of self: Educating young women about menstruation, Women & Language [Urbana] 24,2:13-20
Chrisler, J. C. & Zittel, C. B. (1998) Menarche stories: reminiscences of college students from Lithuania, Malaysia, Sudan, and the United States, Health Care Women Int 19,4:303-12
Costos, D., Ackerman, R. & Paradis, L. (2002) Recollections of Menarche: Communication Between Mothers and Daughters Regarding Menstruation, Sex Roles 46,1/2:49-59
Cwikel, Julie & Mendlinger, Sheryl (2005) Learning about Menstruation: Knowledge Acquisition and Cultural Diversity. Fifth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, held 30th June – 3rd July, 2005, Beijing China
Dashiff, C. J. (1992) Self-care capabilities in Black girls in anticipation of menarche, Health Care for Women Int 13,1:67-76
De Ras, Marion E. P. (1997) "Maiden Diseases" and the Pathologising of Female Puberty and Adolescence in de Ras, M.E.P. & Grace, V. (Eds) Bodily Migrations, Sexualized Genders and Medical Discourses. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, p110-23
Delaney, J., Lupton, M. J. & Toth, E. (1976/1988) The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation. 1st & rev. ed. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press [esp. p24-32, 64-71, 93-7, 142-54]
Diorio, J. A. & Munro, J. A. (2000) Doing Harm in the Name of Protection: Menstruation as a Topic for Sex Education, Gender & Educ 12,3:347-65
Doan, H. McK. & Morse, J. M. (1985) The Last Taboo: Roadblocks to Researching Menarche, Health Care for Women Int 6,5-6:277-83
Dundes, A. (1998)Bloody Mary in the mirror: a ritual reflection of pre-pubescent anxiety, Western Folklore 57,2/3:119-35
Elson, J. (2002) Menarche, Menstruation, and Gender Identity: Retrospective Accounts From Women Who Have Undergone Premenopausal Hysterectomy, Sex Roles 46,1/2:37-48
Fingerson, L. (2001) Social Construction, Power, and Agency in Adolescent Menstrual Talk. Dissertation [DAI-A 62,2:781-A, 2001]

§ Fingerson, L. (2005). "Only Four Minute Passing Periods!" Private and Public Menstrual Identities. In Bettis, P. & Adams, N. (Eds.) Geographies of Girlhood: Identity In-Between. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.

Flaake, K. (1996) Weibliche Adoleszenz, Körperlichkeit und Sexualität. Von den Schwierigkeiten einer Liebe zum eigenen Geschlecht, Zeitschr f Sexualforsch 9,4:303-14
Frank, D. & Tamberlyn, W. (1999) Attitudes about menstruation among fifth-, sixth-, and seventh- grade pre- and post-menarcheal girls, J School Nursing 15,4:25-31
Frankel, L. (2002) “I’ve Never Thought About It”: Contradictions and Taboos Surrounding American Males Experiences of First Ejaculation (Semenarche), J Men’s Studies 11,1:37-54. Reprinted in Heasley, R., & Crane, B. (Eds., 2002) Sexual Lives: A Reader on the Theories and Realities of Human Sexualities. McGraw Hill
Frederick, J. (nd) The First Taboo: How Menstrual Taboos Reflect and Sustain Women's Internalized Oppression. Undergraduate thesis (?) [http://home.comcast.net/~theennead/bean/taboo.htm et seq.]
Golub, Sh. & J. C. (1983) Recollections of Menarche and Women’s Subsequent Experiences with Menstruation, Women & Health 8:49-61
Golub, Sh. (1992) Periods: From Menarche to Menopause. London: Sage Publications Inc.
Golub, Sh. (Ed., 1983) Menarche: The Transition from Girl to Woman. Lexington, MA: D.C. Health
Hajn, V. & Komenda, S. (1985) Zur Menarche-Problematik der Mädchen und ihrer Mütter aus Olomouc, Anthropologie 23,1:5-19
Hawthorne, D. J. (2000) Living through private times: African-American females at menarche, DAI-B 60(9-B):4520
Hawthorne, D. J. (2002) Symbols of Menarche Identified by African American Females, Western J Nursing Res 24,5:484 et seq.

§ Hite, Sh. (1994) The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up under Patriarchy. London: Bloomsbury. 1994 Dutch ed., p114-24

§ Hoerster, K. D., Chrisler. J. C. & Rose, J. G. (2003) Attitudes toward and experience with menstruation in the US and India, Women Health 38,3:77-95

§ Hufnagel, G. (1999) A cultural analysis of the evolution of menarche and menstruation: Implications for education, DAI-A 60(6-A):2256

§ Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. Volume II. The Sexual Curriculum. 0.0 ed. 2002, Amsterdam / Nijmegen / Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology, Berlin

Janssen, D. F. (2005) Girlhood Studies: A Bibliographic Exploration. Nijmegen, June 2005. 1^st edition [PDF]

§ Kalman, M. B. (2003a) Adolescent girls, single-parent fathers, and menarche, Holist Nurs Pract 171:36-40

§ Kalman, M. B. (2003b) Taking a different path: menstrual preparation for adolescent girls living apart from their mothers, Health Care Women Int 24,10:868-79

§ Kissling, E. A. (1996) “That’s just a basic teen-age rule”: Girls’ linguistic strategies for managing the menstrual communication taboo, J Appl Communication Res 24,4:292-309

Kissling, E. A. (2002) On the Rag On Screen: Menarche in Film and Television, Sex Roles 46,1/2:5-12
Koff, E., Rierdan, J. & Jacobson, S. (1981) The Personal and Interpersonal Significance of Menarche, J Am Acad Child Psychia 20:148-58
Koutroulis, G. (2001) Soiled identity: Memory-work narratives of menstruation, Health 5,2:187-205
Kraus, K. & Reinke, G. (1996) Von der Pubertät bis zu den Wechseljahren: Erfahrungen mit der Menstruation. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer
Lee, J. & Sasser-Coen, J. R. (1996a) Memories of Menarche: Older Women Remember Their First Period, J Aging Stud 10,2:83-101
Lee, J. & Sasser-Coen, J. R. (1996b) Blood Stories: Menarche and the Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary US Society. New York: Routledge
Lee, J. (1994) Menarche and the (hetero)sexualization of the female body, Gender & Society 8,3:343-62. Reprinted in Worcester, N. & Whatley, M. (Eds., 2000) Women’s Health: Readings in Social, Economic, and Political Issues. 3rd ed., Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, p290-200
Lee, J. (1997) Never Innocent: Breasted Experiences in Women’s Bodily Narratives of Puberty, Feminism & Psychol 7,4:453-74
Liao , L. M., Missenden , K., Hallam R. S. & Conway G. S. (2005) Experience of early pubertal development: a preliminary analysis, Journal of Reproductive & Infant Psychology 23,3:219 - 233
Logan, D. D. (1980) The menarche experience in twenty-three foreign countries, Adolescence 15(58):247-56
Logan, D. D., Calder, J. A. & Cohen, B. L. (1980) Toward a contemporary tradition for menarche, J Youth & Adol 9,3:263-9
Lovering, K. M. (1995) The bleeding body: Adolescents talk about menstruation, in Wilkinson, S. & Kitzinger, C. (Eds.) Feminism and Discourse: Psychological Perspectives. London: Sage, p10-31
Lovering, K. M. (1997) Listening to girl’s “voice” and silence: the problematics of the menarcheal body, in Marion de Ras & Victoria Grace (Eds.) Bodily boundaries, sexualised genders and medical discourses. Palmerston: Dunmore Press, p69-84
Lynn, P. (1997) Mystery Date: Growing Up and Liking It: A Primer of Period Pedagogy, 1868 – 1996. Online paper, http://www.mum.org/growingup[2,3].htm
Martin, K. A. (1996) Puberty, Sexuality, and the Self: Boys and Girls at Adolescence. Florence, KY: Taylor & Francis / Routledge [DAI-A 1995, 55(9-A):3006]
Martin, Michelle Holley, (1997) Periods, parody, and polyphony: Ideology and heteroglossia in menstrual education. Ph.D., Dissertation Illinois State University
Martin, Michelle Holley, (1999) Postmodern Periods: Menstruation Media in the 1990s, The Lion & the Unicorn 23,3:395-414
McGrory, A. (1990) Menarche: Responses of early adolescent females, Adolescence 25(98):265 et seq.
McPherson, M. E. & Korfine, L. (2004) Menstruation across time: menarche, menstrual attitudes, experiences, and behaviours, Womens Health Issues 14,6:193-200
Merskin, Debra (1997) It'll Be Our Little Secret: Adolescence, Advertising, and the Menstrual Taboo. American Studies Association Canadian Association for American Studies, Third Joint Annual Meeting, Oct.
Moore, S. M. (1995) Girls’ understanding and social constructions of menarche, J Adolesc 18,1:87-104
Ndana, N. (1999) To “insult” or to “teach”? A reading of a Subiya nuptial song, Botswana Notes and Records 31:129-34
O’Grady, K. & Wansbrough, P. (1997) Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation. Toronto: Second Story Press
Paige, K. E. & Paige, J. M. (1981) The Politics of Reproductive Ritual. Berkeley [etc.]: University of California Press
Porter, M. (2005) First Blood: How three generations of Newfoundland women learned about menstruation. ESREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults) Life History and Biography Network Conference, Anghiari 3-6 marzo 2005 [http://www.lua.it/form/esrea/papers/Porter.rtf]
Prendergast, S. (1992) This is the Time to Grow Up: Girls’ Experiences of Menstruation in School. Cambridge: The Health Promotion Research Trust
Rembeck, G. I. & Gunnarsson, R. K. (2004) Improving pre- and postmenarcheal 12-year-old girls' attitudes toward menstruation, Health Care Women Int 25,7:680-98
Ribal, J. E. (1973) Learning Sex Roles: American and Scandinavian Contrasts. San Francisco, Calif.: Canfield
Rierdan, J., Koff, E. & Flaherty, J. (1985/6) Conceptions and misconceptions of menstruation, Women & Health 10,4:33-45
Ruble, D. N. & Brooks-Gunn, J. (1982) The Experience of Menarche, Child Developm 53,6:1557-66
Ruble, D. N. & Brooks-Gunn, J. (1987) Perceptions of menstrual and premenstrual symptoms: Self definitional processes at menarche, in Ginsberg, B. E. & Carter, B. F. (Eds.) Premenstrual syndrome: Ethical and legal implications in a biomedical perspective. New York, NY: Plenum, p237-51
Sasser-Coen, J. (1996) The Point of Confluence: A Qualitative Study of the Life-Span Developmental Importance of Menarche in the Bodily Histories of Older Women. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Oregon State University
Sasser-Coen, J. R. (1997) The Point of Confluence: A Qualitative Study of the Life-Span Developmental Importance of Menarche in the Bodily Histories of Older Women, DAI-A 57,10-A:4493
Schlegel, A. & Barry III, H. (1979) Adolescent initiation ceremonies: a cross-cultural code, Ethnology 18,2:199-210
Scott, C. S., Arthur, D., Owen, R. & Panizo, M. I. (1989) Black adolescents’ emotional response to menarche, J Natl Med Assoc 81,3:285-90
Simes, M. R. & Berg, D. H. (2001) Surreptitious learning: Menarche and menstrual product advertisements, Health Care for Women Int 22,5:455-69
Simonen, L. & Liborakina, M. (1996) The First Menstruation-Bodily Memories of Finnish and Russian Women, in Rotkirch, A. & Haavio-Mannila, E. (Eds.) Women’s Voices in Russia Today. Aldershot, England: Dartmouth, p88-106
Soster-Olmer, K. (2001) First Moon Rising, Mothering, Nov/Dec, Issue 109:46 et seq. / First Blood Celebrations around the Globe, p48
Sthamer, T. (1997) Die Menarche - Einschneidende Erfahrungen im Entwicklungsprozeß von Mädchen- Probleme und pädagogische Konsequenzen. Thesis, Hochschule Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Tal, Ilana (2004) Exploring the meaning of becoming a woman in a non-Western culture: A narrative analysis of first menstruation stories of Ethiopian Jewish women. PhD Dissertation, Fielding Graduate Institute
Teitelman, A. M. (2004) Adolescent girls' perspectives of family interactions related to menarche and sexual health, Qual Health Res 14,9:1292-308
Thuren, B.M. (1994) Opening Doors and Getting Rid of Shame: Experiences of First Menstruation in Valencia, Spain, Women’s Stud Int Forum 17,2-3:217-28
Uskul, A. K. (2000) Menarche and Menstruation across Cultures. Thesis, International Women’s University, Hanover, Germany
Uskul, A. K. (2001, April) Culture, menarche and menstruation. Paper presented at the Social/Personality area 2000/2001 Brown Bag Series, York University, Toronto
Uskul, A. K. (2004) Women’s menarche stories from a multicultural sample, Social Science & Medicine 59:667-79
Vostral, Sh. (2001) From Girl to Young Woman: Media, Material Culture, and Menstruation in Post-War United States. Paper delivered at the Conference Designing Modern Childhoods: Landscapes, Buildings, and Material Culture, University of California, Berkeley, USA, May 2-3
Whisnant, L. & Zegans, L. (1975a) A Study of Attitudes Toward Menarche in White Middle-Class American Adolescent Girls, Am J Psychia 132,8:809-14
Whisnant, L. & Zegans, L. (1975b) Menarche in American Culture: Deritualisation May be Harmful, Roche Report; Frontiers of Psychiatry (15 Jan.):3
Whisnant, L., Brett, E. & Zergans, L. (1975) Implicit Messages Concerning Menstruation in Commercial Educational Materials Prepared for Young Girls, Am J Psychia 132,8:815-20
Woods, N. F., Dery, G. K. & Most, A. (1983) Recollections of Menarche, Current Menstrual Attitudes, and Perimenstrual Symptoms, in Golub, S. (Ed.) Menarche: The Transition from Girl to Woman. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, p87-97
Zulliger, H. (1955) Das “Geheimnis” pubertierender Mädchen, Psyche 9:498-512

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Last revised: Feb 2006