The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

Institute for the Study of Human Rights Columbia University New York, NY, USA. Inga T. Winkler is a lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Director of the Working Group on Menstrual Health & Gender Justice at Columbia University. She is particularly interested in the intersec- tions of menstruation, human rights, and culture and focuses on questions of inequalities, marginalization, and representation. Another strand of her research builds on her policy and consulting experience and engages directly with policy-makers on menstrual health. Her books include the first compre- hensive monograph on the human right to water and an edited volume on the Sustainable Development Goals. She is affiliated faculty at the Columbia Water Center in the Earth Institute, the Economic and Social Rights Working Group at the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, and the Center on Law and Social Transformation at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is the former legal adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation.

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Women and Gender Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis Arizona State University Glendale, AZ, USA. Breanne Fahs is a professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University, where she specializes in studying women’s sexuality, crit- ical embodiment studies, radical feminism, and political activism. She has authored five books and three edited collections: Performing Sex, Valerie Solanas, Out for Blood, Firebrand Feminism, Women, Sex, and Madness, The Moral Panics of Sexuality, Transforming Contagion, and Burn it Down. She also works as a clinical psychologist in a private practice, where she specializes in sexuality, couples work, and trauma recovery.

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Center for Genetics and Society Berkeley, CA, USA. Katie Ann Hasson writes, speaks, researches, and teaches about the social and political aspects of human genetic and reproductive technologies. She is currently program director on genetic justice at the Center for Genetics and Society. Katie earned her Ph.D. in sociology with a designated emphasis in women, gender, and sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley, and was previously an assistant professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California.

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Women’s & Gender Studies Eastern Washington University Cheney, WA, USA. Elizabeth Arveda Kissling is professor of women’s and gender studies at Eastern Washington University. Her research focuses on women’s health, bod- ies, and feminism, and especially how these issues are represented in media. Her newest book about abortion activism and social media, From a Whisper to a Shout, was published in 2018 by Repeater Books. As the author of Capitalizing on the Curse and related articles, she is best known for her research on media representations of menstruation. Her pronouns are she and her.

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Department of Psychology Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO, USA. Tomi-Ann Roberts is professor of psychology at Colorado College. Her work focuses on the psychological consequences of the sexualization and objectification of girls and women. The first paper she co-authored on this topic, Objectification Theory, is the most cited article in the history of the journal, Psychology of Women Quarterly. In addition to her scholarly publica- tions, she served on the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls, the Task Force on Educating Through Feminist Research and as President of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research from 2017 to 2019. She leverages her feminist psychological science as an expert witness and consultant in cases involving objectification as a form of sexism and gender discrimination.

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