02180cgm a2200337 i 4500 2548300353 TxAuBib 20240904120000.0 r 150908s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 1144708 Kanopy (OCoLC)921960890 VDU eng VDU TxAuBib rda Period Piece [Kanopy]. [San Francisco, California, USA : Kanopy Streaming, 2015. 1 online resource (streaming video file.) tdi rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Title from title frames. In Process Record. Originally produced by Jay Rosenblatt Films in 1996. Period Piece is a documentary about menarche -- a girl's first menstrual period -- which is a fundamental experience in every woman's life, yet one that is rarely celebrated. Women of different ages (8-84) and multi-cultural backgrounds tell their menarchal stories with candor and humor. Their poignant stories reveal feelings about womanhood, family dynamics and society's complicated attitude toward menstruation. Interspersed throughoutPeriod Piece, as counterpoint to what the women are saying, are portions of old 1950's educational films about menstruation. Period Piece addresses the pain girls experience trying to negotiate their bodies and their culture. The subject of menarche is rarely mentioned publicly, and in many families it is not even broached in private. Rather than celebrate this coming of age, we hide it and women are advised to deodorize, sanitize, and remove the evidence. Women watching this film will discover their connectedness to others, and mothers are provided with a choice they may not have realized they had about how to aid their daughters in this important and often neglected life transition. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Experimental/Alternative Media. Psychology. Rosenblatt, Jay, filmmaker. Kanopy (Firm). https://USERNAME.kanopy.com/node/144709 https://www.kanopy.com/node/144709/external-image BSBPL