Senior Lecturer, Politics, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
Reader, Social Policy, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
Sex Reprod Health Matters. 2023 Dec;31(1):2204025. doi: 10.1080/26410397.2023.2204025.
This article develops the concept of "menstrual justice". The legal scholar Margaret E. Johnson has developed an expansive approach to menstrual justice incorporating rights, justice, and a framework for intersectional analysis, with a focus on the US. This framework provides a welcome alternative to the constrictive and medicalised approaches often taken towards menstruation. However, the framework is silent on several issues pertaining to menstruation in Global South contexts. This article therefore develops the concept of menstrual justice in order to extend its relevance beyond the Global North. It presents the findings of mixed-methods research conducted in April 2019 in the mid-western region of Nepal, particularly concerning the practice of , an extreme form of menstrual restriction. We conducted a quantitative survey of 400 adolescent girls and eight focus group discussions, four with adolescent girls and four with adult women. Our findings confirm that dignity in menstruation requires addressing pain management, security issues, and mental health, plus structural issues including economic disadvantage, environmental issues, criminal law, and education.
本文提出了“月经正义”的概念。法律学者玛格丽特·E·约翰逊（Margaret E. Johnson）提出了一种广泛的月经正义方法，将权利、正义和交叉分析框架结合起来，重点关注美国。该框架为经常针对月经的狭隘和医学化方法提供了一个受欢迎的替代方案。然而，该框架对全球南方背景下与月经有关的几个问题保持沉默。因此，本文旨在通过在全球范围内扩展其相关性来发展月经正义的概念。本文介绍了 2019 年 4 月在尼泊尔中西部地区进行的混合方法研究的结果，特别是关于 的做法，这是一种极端的月经限制形式。我们对 400 名青春期少女进行了定量调查，并进行了八次焦点小组讨论，其中四次是与青春期少女进行的，四次是与成年妇女进行的。我们的研究结果证实，月经期间的尊严需要解决疼痛管理、安全问题和心理健康问题，以及包括经济劣势、环境问题、刑法和教育在内的结构性问题。
