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This is a useful book for guys who want to understand what girls “monthly” gift is all about, and how they used ” im on my period” to gain control in  relationships, just watch out for the subtle feminist “This work is part of a growing field that gives more attention to children and adolescents in creating their own unique social networks within the broader world constructed, by adults. Fingerson’s interviews with girls as well as boys concerning attitudes about menstruation are new and refreshing. How we are taught to socially manage this bodily process deserves more attention, and Fingerson has helped to carve a path that other researchers may follow.”MENSTRUATION IS . . .KASSIE (age 16): “Makes us stronger, in ways, I guess, like [we] deal withpain better than a lot of people, a lot of guys.”BRIAN (14): “When girls get really mean and they bleed everywhere.”JANE (14): “Something to make guys miserable . . . cause they have to putup with the whole PMS and all that.”ALLY (17): “It’s messy, and it’s gross, and I don’t want to have to deal withit. . . . You have to deal with stupid boys and physics class and algebra 2and I don’t want more things to deal with.”From these quotes of mostly white, middle- and working-class teenagers today,we can see that the experience of menstruation, far from being private and secretive, is embedded in social relations. In this book, we will explore the social aspects of menstruation and the body and how adolescent girls today canuse their bodies as sources of power in their social interactions with others.