男性的月經文化：建構與行動

E-Menstrual Culture: Construction and Action

當我們在試圖探討女性的月經社會生活經驗，及父權文化透過月經加諸於女性身上的種種箝制與壓迫時，研究者認為只探討女性仍是不足的，也有必要從男性社會行動者身上來做更進一步的檢視。本研究乃是站在將個人視為社會行動者的立場上，以男性為受訪對象，瞭解日常生活中男性如何看待及對待月經。透過對男性月經文化的瞭解，希望重新釐清男性與月經的關係，並且更進一步檢視男性的月經文化和父權價值的月經論述以及女性月經生活的關係。本研究以深度訪談的方式，以非結構性的開放式問卷對十七位成年男性進行訪談，訪談的內容可分為兩個主要的大方向：男性月經文化的建構，包含月經知識的取得及內容、受訪者對於月經／月經知識的看法、男性如何／和誰談論月經，以及日常生活的月經行動策略。研究者從男性月經文化的建構過程、月經圖像、和男性的月經行動策略三個部分來討論與呈現男性月經文化的內涵，並於文章最後探討男性常民月經文化、父權價值的月經論述及女性的月經生活和經驗三者之間的關係。

When we discuss women’s menstrual life, focusing on restraints and repression on women from a patriarchal point of view, it is not enough to probe only from women's perspectives. It seems necessary to inspect male social agents too. In this paper, the researcher tried to understand how men thought about and dealt with menstruation in their daily life to illustrate men’s menstrual culture. Seventeen male adults were interviewed with an unstructured open questionnaire with two main themes. One is the construction of men’s menstrual culture, including how men got information about menstruation, what kind of information they got and their opinions on menstruation, how men talked about menstruation, and whom they talked with; the other one is their actions to deal with menstruation. Men’s menstrual culture is discussed in three parts: the constructed process of men’s menstrual culture, men’s images of menstruation and action strategies to deal with menstrual.