Lit & DisEase Series--Menstruation in Chinese and American Culture
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Summary by author Charlotte:

I believe that most of the female audiences of this podcast would remember when we hide ourselves in a narrow space to change our pads or tampons, to flush the evidence of menstruation away carefully and secretly like we are concealing some evidence of a crime. It is true that menstruation has always played a negative role in human history. Putting on a dialectical and contrastive lens, we are going to find what is menstruation in Chinese and American culture, which represent both Eastern and Western civilizations and what is people’s attitude towards it in these two countries from two ends of the globe.

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