Within contemporary American society there is in menarche a movement away from notions of embeddedness within tradition. Instead, traditionalism is “replaced” with the medicalization of menarche, this medialization is seen as progress from the previous primitive notions of anatomy and practices surrounding menarche. The primitive ways of “others” and the old country are abandoned in favor of the modern silence of “hygienic,” menarche. Yet, claims of hygiene are rooted in traditional notions of menarche and its relation to cleanliness and purity. Both the medialization and the modernization of menarche have contributed to the notions of progress and distance from the “other.” Through the hygienic modernization of menstruation women have been seen as being liberated from their own
Within contemporary American society there is in menarche a movement away from notions of embeddedness within tradition. Instead, traditionalism is “replaced” with the medicalization of menarche, this medialization is seen as progress from the previous primitive notions of anatomy and practices surrounding menarche. The primitive ways of “others” and the old country are abandoned in favor of the modern silence of “hygienic,” menarche. Yet, claims of hygiene are rooted in traditional notions of menarche and its relation to cleanliness and purity. Both the medialization and the modernization of menarche have contributed to the notions of progress and distance from the “other.” Through the hygienic modernization of menstruation women have been seen as being liberated from their own