Host: The Association of Japanese Geographers
Name : Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Spring 2024
Date : March 19, 2024 - March 21, 2024
Menstruation, which destabilizes women's bodies, alters their relationships to space. These changes have physical, mental, and social dimensions. In terms of the physical aspect, women change their travel routes to rest their bodies, taking advantage of the developed public transportation system in the city center. On the mental side, menstruation turns a certain place into an "unpleasant place" or a "place to escape" for women. In social terms, the meaning assigned to the body with menstrual symptoms changes depending on the context. Menstruation constrains women's daily lives spatially and temporally. However, the norm that menstruation should be concealed sometimes creates sisterhood.
