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A 3 page paper which examines one particular essay from Caroline Brettell’s text “Gender in Cross Cultural Perspective.” The essay examined is Galloway’s “Where Have All the Menstrual Huts Gone?” No additional sources cited.
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in society. The author takes us back into prehistory in many ways, offering an anthropological look at gender, as well as a biological and social look at issues of gender.
The work is comprised of numerous essays written by many different individuals. The following paper examines and discusses one particular essay titled "Where Have All the Menstrual Huts Gone?" by
Patricia Galloway. Where Have All the Menstrual Huts Gone? Anyone familiar with prehistory, or with studies of ancient cultures, primitive cultures in many ways, knows that women who
were menstruating were often banished to menstrual huts, or essentially banned from all social interaction until their menstruating cycle was over. There are many different reasons behind this practice, depending
on the culture. This particular reader has always found this aspect of anthropology very interesting for the various tribes or societies had a powerful fear of women when they were
menstruating. For example, they were put in huts because it was feared that they possessed a power, sometimes considered to be evil, when they were bleeding. There were cultures that
believed a woman who was bleeding could easily contaminate the society, or the men in that society, because of their bleeding. In essence, it was a mystery before science and
medical research uncovered what a menstrual cycle was. Here were these women, every month, who bled and felt no pain really. They did not die from the enormous amount of
blood they lost during their menstrual cycle. It was a very strange and powerful mystery. Galloways essay examines these sorts of ideas, but puts a great emphasis on our society
today and how throughout the world a womans menstrual cycle is still consider a mystery and something to be avoided in discussion or in visually acknowledging. Even though the ancient
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