What is it about?
This essay will look at the themes of menstruation and censorship in both of these books as well as menstruation's mention in more recent pieces of adolescent/crossover literature, Megan McCafferty's Sloppy Firsts and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Lovingly Alice, and its acceptance by today's readers.
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Why is it important?
Menstruation is a part of growing up for every young girl. It should be discussed with young girls earlier in their lives and normalized in the literature they read.
Perspectives
Normalizing puberty and the changes it brings is important to me. Young girls need to know that they can accomplish whatever they put their minds to - they need to know the changes in their body while they can be scary are normal and acceptable.
Carissa Pokorny-Golden
Kutztown University
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This page is a summary of: The Censoring of Menstruation in Adolescent Literature: A Growing Problem, Women s Reproductive Health, January 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/23293691.2015.1039443.
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