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Chris has long been fascinated by social movements and how and when they emerge, frame their issues and their interventions and make sense of what is at stake. For more than two decades, Chris been been researching, writing, and speaking on Critical Menstruation Studies and more generally, body autonomy. Her most recent books include The Managed Body: Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South (2018; Palgrave Macmillan), and the co-edited collections Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions and Transformations (2019; Vanderbilt) and open-source The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies (2020; Palgrave Macmillan) which has been downloaded more 2+ million times. Pivoting from menstrual health and politics, she is currently at work on a new book exploring contemporary activism inspired by grief and trauma tentatively titled Accidental Activism:
Why Grief Becomes Grievance in the Wake of Traumatic Loss.
Chris has been quoted in publications such as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, NPR, USA Today, The Atlantic, El Mundo, Agence France-Presse, and the Associated Press and featured in several podcasts and documentaries including Periodical, soon to stream on NBC's Peacock. See below for a full catalog of Chris' publications, media engagements and more.
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Erratum: The Messiness of The Menstruator: Assessing Personas and Functionalities of Menstrual Tracking Apps (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocab212)
Pichon, A., Jackman, K. B., Winkler, I. T., Bobel, C. & Elhadad, N., Feb 1 2022, In: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 29, 2, p. 412 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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The messiness of the menstruator: assessing personas and functionalities of menstrual tracking apps
Pichon, A., Jackman, K. B., Winkler, I. T., Bobel, C. & Elhadad, N., Feb 1 2022, In: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 29, 2, p. 385-399 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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"Bizarre" and "Backward": Saviorism and Modernity in Representations of Menstrual Beliefs and Practices in the Popular Media
Winkler, I. T. & Bobel, C., Jun 1 2021, In: Feminist Formations. 33, 2, p. 313-339 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Menstrual health: a definition for policy, practice, and research
Hennegan, J., Winkler, I. T., Bobel, C., Keiser, D., Hampton, J., Larsson, G., Chandra-Mouli, V., Plesons, M. & Mahon, T., 2021, In: Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. 29, 1, 1911618.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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From bloodless respectability to radical menstrual embodiment: Shifting menstrual politics from private to public
Bobel, C. & Fahs, B., Jun 1 2020, In: Signs. 45, 4, p. 955-983 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review