Menstrual Taboo

Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Kitahara, MichioFemale puberty rites: reconsideration and speculation
Young, Frank W.Menstrual taboos and social rigidity

Associated Hypotheses (4)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Kitahara, MichioMenstrual taboos will be positively associated with female puberty rites.
Young, Frank W."Rigidity and male dominance are associated [with menstrual taboos] to about the same degree, as would be expected" (103)
Young, Frank W."Stephens reports that the postpartum taboo tends to be bimodally distributed. On the contrary, degree of elaboration of menstrual taboos is associated with increasing length of the postpartum taboo" (104)
Young, Frank W."Stephens' main predictor [of menstrual taboo], the composite score of anxiety, did hold up [replicate]" (105)

Associated OCMs

  1. menstruation