ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the emergent and heterogeneous initiatives about menstruation are shaping the social and environmental landscape in Argentina, focusing mostly on the role of reusable menstrual technologies. It examines menstrual activists' leadership and action in relation to crafting responses to environmental and social problems linked to current dominant forms of managing menstruation. The chapter explains that the actions and experiences of menstrual activists are expressive of an ethics of care. By understanding care as going beyond ‘the narrow confines of the private sphere’, it discusses how caring for the body extends to a broader relationship of caring for the environment, the community and future generations. The chapter argues that the actions of menstrual activists are a form of environmental and social activism aimed at transforming their embodied menstrual experiences, as well as producing a direct social and environmental impact.
