This edited volume critically examines the intersection of law, policy, and socio-cultural dynamics to understand menstrual experiences in India. Placing “experience” as an epistemic focus to explore how policy frameworks shape and are shaped by the lived realities of menstruating individuals, this book fosters a dialogue between law professionals and social scientists to address challenges like period poverty and menstrual stigma and offers actionable insights. It seeks to contribute to ongoing scholarly conversations by exploring six interrelated thematic areas and attempts to engage with autoethnographic reflections on lived menstrual experiences, clinical and care perspectives on menstruation , caste and cultural contexts shaping the legitimization and delegitimization of menstrual stigma, selected empirical and discursive inquiries, legal and policy frameworks and interpretative readings of resistance within visual and political discourses on menstruation. This book will be of interest to researchers in women’s and gender studies, sociology, law and policy, psychology, and health sciences.

Radhika Jagtap is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, UPES Dehradun, India. She holds a PhD in Public International Law from Centre for International Legal Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, and works in the field of international law and gender studies. Her work draws largely from critical feminisms and Third World Approaches to International law (TWAIL).

Aparna Vyas is an Assistant Professor at Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O. P. Jindal Global University, India, and holds a PhD in Social Psychology from Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She works in the field of social and cultural psychology with a focus on issues of caste and gender.