Menstruation
published writing
Please note: this list details my published work since 2018, listed in APA citation style.
For older work please see my Google Scholar and Amazon Author pages, and the Archive section on this site.
For more details on my books, please follow the links to their respective pages below.
BOOKS
Owen, L. (2024). Reorganizing menstruation: Menstrual innovations and the redistribution of boundaries, capitals, and labour. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Owen, L. (2022). Her blood is gold: Awakening to the wisdom of menstruation. Shaftsbury, Dorset: Archive Publishing. (This references the most recent edition: the book was previously published by HarperCollins 1993; Crossing Press 1998; Archive Publishing 2008).
ACADEMIC PAPERS
Howe D, Duffy S, O’Shea M, Hawkey A, Wardle J, Gerontakos S, Steele L, Gilbert E, Owen L, Ciccia D, et al. (2023). Policies, guidelines, and practices supporting women’s menstruation, menstrual disorders and menopause at work: A critical global scoping review. Healthcare, 11(22):2945.
Bildhauer, B. & Owen, L. (2023). Menstrual stigma rearticulated as environmental pollution in contemporary Scottish policy-making. Women’s Reproductive Health, 10:2, 167-184.
Owen, L. (2022). Stigma, sustainability, and capitals: A case study on the menstrual cup. Gender, Work and Organization, 29(4), 1095–1112. (Paywall). [This link will take you to a free pre-publication version on Researchgate.]
Owen, L. (2022). Researching the researchers: The impact of menstrual stigma on the study of menstruation. In Bildhauer, B., Rostvik, C. M., & Vostral, S. (Eds), The politics and history of menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish campaign to End Period Poverty. Open Library of the Humanities, 8(1).
Owen, L. (2018). Menstruation and humanistic management at work: The development and implementation of a menstrual workplace policy. Journal of the Association for Management Education & Development, 25(4), 23-31.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Owen, L. (2026). Chapters on Menstrual leave, Menstrual literacy, and Menstruation and menopause in the workplace. In Hughes, B. & Standing, K. (Eds), The Sage Encyclopedia of Menstruation & Society. Sage Publications, Inc.
FORTHCOMING:
Neal, S. & Owen, L. (2027). “Free Bleeding”: The effects of resisting normative consumerism and concealment through adopting unconventional menstrual practices. In Renne E. (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Menstruation. Routledge.
Owen, L. (2027). Menstrual stigma and ethnographic research methods. In Renne, E. (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Menstruation. Routledge.
Owen, L. (2027). Cultures and politics of menstruation. In Capern, A. (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women’s History. Oxford University Press.
ARTICLES
Owen, L. & Chambers, K. (2021). Tackling single-use and social stigma in period management. Circular: For Resource & Waste Professionals.
Owen, L. (2019). Does anyone have a pad?: TV is finally dismantling the period taboo. In The Conversation.
THESIS
Owen, L. (2020). Innovations in menstrual organisation: Redistributing boundaries, capitals, and labour. Monash University. PhD thesis. DOI: doi.org/10.26180/5ed437df63c80
REPORTS
Owen, L. & MacKenzie, G. (2021). Menstruation, stigma and sustainability. In S. Bennison, S. & Pels Ferra, L. (Eds.), The Sustainability Series, vol. 1. St Andrews Network for Climate, Energy, Environment and Sustainability (STACEES), University of St Andrews.
Rostvik, C. M., Bildhauer, B. M. E., Hughes, B., & Owen, L. (2019). Introducing: the Menstruation Research Network. The Polyphony.
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