The Effect of Culture on How Women Experience Menstruation
作者:
SiegelSheilaJubelirer,
期刊:
Women&Health
(Taylor Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 10,
issue 4
页码: 63-74
ISSN:0363-0242
年代: 1986
DOI:10.1300/J013v10n04_06
出版商: Taylor&Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Mikvah is a practice in Judaism consisting of ritual bathing that occurs at the end of the menstrual period. This study compared 161 married Jewish women, 82 mikvah users, and 79 nonusers in order to learn how this ritual affects attitudes towards menstruation and the perception of menstrual and premenstrual distress. Women participating in mikvah, a ritual that defines them as "unclean," were expected to have more negative conceptions of menstrual cycle symptomatology and more positive menstrual attitudes than women in the same culture not participating in this ritual. These hypotheses were not supported by the findings. What was found was a similarity between the two groups in attitudes towards menstruation, frequency and type of symptoms surrounding the menstrual period, and the degree to which any of these symptoms were experienced
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