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This lecture highlights the different attitudes surrounding menstruation and processes of advertising menstrual products during the Cold War. From a U.S. perspective, Saniya Lee Ghanoui will present how, in the early years of the Cold War, product companies connected menstruation to broader notions of nationalism and patriotism. Pavel Vasilyev focuses on post-Soviet Russia and examines how new menstrual discourses and practices emerged and developed in the wake of the Soviet collapse. With their presentations, they hope to prompt larger discussions about the history of international menstrual ideas that emerged with the global menstrual movement of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.
