Our Red Book: Intimate Conversations about Periods - Hardcover

Nalebuff, Rachel Kauder

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0349015007 ISBN 13: 9780349015002

Publisher: Virago, 2022

Synopsis

A Scottish MP celebrates making period products freely available. A father admits embarrassment at buying pads for his daughter. A Jewish grandmother describes getting her first period in front of Nazi soldiers. A trans woman, a trans man and a non-binary person share their stories. And a marathon runner makes crimson waves.

From the first red flag to the last goodbye, from Indigenous rites to medical frontiers, from miscarriages to menopause, from pain to pride, from 'free bleeding' in public to bleeding behind bars - the underwear, the oversight, period poverty and protests - Our Red Book takes us to every corner of the globe and every voice yet unheard.

Featuring contributions from Gloria Steinem, Judy Blume, Madame Gandhi, and Florence Given, Our Red Book is a collection of oral histories, written and visual testimonies from extraordinary people around the world, gathered especially by the New York Times bestselling editor of My Little Red Book.

About this title

About the Author

Rachel Kauder Nalebuff is a writer working often in performance and oral history. She is the author of Stages: on Dying, Working, and Feeling; co-editor of The Feminist Utopia Project; and the editor of the New York Times best-selling My Little Red Book. She teaches drama at senior centers and writing at Yale University.

From the Inside Flap

A Scottish MP celebrates making period products freely available. A father admits embarrassment at buying pads for his daughter. A Jewish grandmother describes getting her first period in front of Nazi soldiers. A trans woman, a trans man and a non-binary person share their stories. And a marathon runner makes crimson waves.

From the first red flag to the last goodbye, from Indigenous rites to medical frontiers, from miscarriages to menopause, from pain to pride, from 'free bleeding' in public to bleeding behind bars - the underwear, the oversight, period poverty and protests - Our Red Book takes us to every corner of the globe and every voice yet unheard.

Featuring contributions from Gloria Steinem, Judy Blume, Madame Gandhi, and Florence Given, Our Red Book is a collection of oral histories, written and visual testimonies from extraordinary people around the world, gathered especially by the New York Times bestselling editor of My Little Red Book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349015007
• ISBN 13: 9780349015002
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384