Blood and Social System: Battle of “Purity” And “Impurity”
Lina Baniya
Researchers, Dignity Without Danger, Department of Sociology, Tribhuvan University
Mensuration practices have many systems. This rapid ethnographic research is about the Nepalese women practices during mensuration. It has multiple procedures of interviews (In-depth, Key and Focus group discussion) conducted in the different 4 provinces and 7 districts in the Nepalese society. It revels subjective experiences of women’s menstrual knowledge, perception, restriction, and practices.
Lina Baniya
Researchers, Dignity Without Danger, Department of Sociology, Tribhuvan University
Nepal has diverse stories for menstruation practices. Menstruation as a source of social stigma and taboos equally it is the mark of women reproductive age. different research has done to explore the mensuration practices in which number of research show mensuration practice is confined and defined by society religion and the cultural authorities.
Menstrual Discrimination refers to taboos, shyness,
shame, stigma, restrictions, abuses, violence,
deprivation from resources that are associated with
menstruation..