月经政治和历史背景下的《2021年经期产品(免费供应)(苏格兰)法》:引言

IF 0.3 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Bettina Bildhauer, C. Røstvik, Sharra L. Vostral
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摘要

2021年1月,苏格兰成为世界上第一个将普及免费期产品作为合法权利的国家,这一举措作为“世界首创”引起了国际社会的极大关注。这篇引言从月经史的角度概述了这项法律的新之处和突破性之处,以及它只是延续了围绕月经的传统和广泛的观念、政策和实践。根据对该法案议会辩论的分析,我们表明,该法案通过满足十个不同政治议程的组合而获得了广泛的政治支持:促进妇女性别平等,同时承认更广泛的性别多样性,以相对较低的总体成本切实减轻贫困的一个突出方面,改善受教育的机会,与基层活动家合作,改善公共卫生,照顾可持续性问题,以及通过世界领先立法的愿望。在每一个案例中,我们都展示了特定的政治目标在多大程度上是月经史和政治史上最近更广泛的轨迹的典型,或者与之不同,在适当的情况下,还展示了苏格兰政治史上的轨迹。这十项议程在其国际背景下,对苏格兰及其他地区的月经政治和历史现状提供了千变万化的见解。本引言还将本特辑作为一个整体与关键月经研究领域联系起来,并提供了有关苏格兰政治和月经史中立法过程和关键术语的背景信息。
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The Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act 2021 in the context of menstrual politics and history: An introduction
In January 2021, Scotland became the first country in the world to make universal access to free period products a legal right, an initiative which attracted extraordinary international attention as a “world first”. This introduction outlines from the perspective of the history of menstruation what is indeed new and ground-breaking about this law, and what merely continues traditional and widespread conceptions, policies and practices surrounding menstruation. On the basis of on analysis the parliamentary debates of the Act, we show that it gained broad political support by satisfying a combination of ten different political agendas: promoting gender equality for women while acknowledging broader gender diversity, practically alleviating one high-profile aspect of poverty at a relatively low overall cost to the state, tackling menstrual stigma, improving access to education, working with grassroots campaigners, improving public health, and accommodating sustainability concerns, as well as the desire to pass world-leading legislation in itself. We in each case show to what extent the particular political aim is typical of, or else departs from, recent wider trajectories in the history and politics of menstruation, and, where pertinent, trajectories in Scottish political history. The ten agendas in their international context provide a kaleidoscopic insight into the current state of menstrual politics and history in Scotland and beyond. This introduction also situates this Special Collection as a whole in relation to the field of Critical Menstruation Studies and provides background information about the legislative process and key terminology in Scottish politics and in the history of menstruation.
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Open Library of Humanities
Open Library of Humanities HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
CiteScore
1.30
自引率
20.00%
发文量
24
审稿时长
15 weeks
期刊介绍: The Open Library of Humanities is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal open to submissions from researchers working in any humanities'' discipline in any language. The journal is funded by an international library consortium and has no charges to authors or readers. The Open Library of Humanities is digitally preserved in the CLOCKSS archive.
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