Publications

FORTHCOMING

  Knowledge Exchange and Menstrual Equity: Creating Social Impact Across Policy, Practices, and Communities (2026) Bloomsbury

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IN PRINT

• Tomlinson, Maria (2025) The Menstrual Movement in the Media: Reducing Stigma and Tackling Social Inequalities, Palgrave Macmillan, [Series: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change]

• Stanek, D. B., Hestbjerg, I., Hansen, K. E., Tomlinson, M. K., & Kirk, U. B. (2023). Not" just a bad period"-The Impact of a Co-Created Endometriosis Social Media Health Campaign: a Mixed Methods Study. Frontiers in Communication, 8, 1154297.
   

• Tomlinson, Maria (2023) “Periods Don’t Stop for Pandemics”: The Implications of COVID-19 for Online and Offline Menstrual Activism in Great Britain, Women's Studies in Communication
   

• Tomlinson, Maria (2023) “Ca_Va_Saigner” (“There Will be Blood”): Digital Menstrual Activism in France. In: Wiesslitz, C. (eds) Women’s Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan
   

• Pang, Helen & Tomlinson, Maria (2022) The trivialization of sexual harassment in Japanese mascot culture: Japanese audience responses to YouTube videos of Kumamon, Feminist Media Studies
   

• Tomlinson, Maria (2021) From Menstruation to the Menopause: The Female Fertility Cycle in Contemporary Women's Writing in French, Liverpool University Press.
   

• Tomlinson, Maria (2021) ‘Moody and Monstrous Menstruators: The Semiotics of the Menstrual Meme on Social Media’, Social Semiotics, 31:5
   

• Galis, Polly, Tomlinson, Maria, and Wimbush, Antonia (eds) (2021) Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture, Peter Lang.
   

• Galis, Polly, Tomlinson, Maria, and Wimbush, Antonia (eds) (Summer 2020) ‘Challenging Normative Spaces and Gazes: The Body in 20th and 21st Century Francophone Culture’, L'Esprit Créateur.
   

• Heywood, Emma and Tomlinson, Maria (2019) ‘The Contribution of Citizen Views to understanding women’s empowerment as a process of change: The case of Niger’, Journal of Feminist Media Studies.
   

• Tomlinson, Maria (2019) ‘Subverting Patriarchal norms (?): The Pleasures of Menopausal Women in Michèle Sarde’s Constance et la cinquantaine’ in Allison, Maggie, Evans, Elliot and Tarr, Carrie (eds), Plaisirs de femmes: Women’s Pleasures and Their Discontents in French Literature and Culture, Oxford: Peter Lang, 139-152
   

• Tomlinson, Maria (2018) ‘“On dirait que c’est honteux de devenir une femme”: Narratives of a Girl’s First Menses in Maïssa Bey’s Bleu blanc vert and Leïla Marouane’s La Jeune Fille et la mère’ in L’Esprit Créateur, Vol. 58, No. 2, 112-125.
   

• Tomlinson, Maria (2015) ‘"​...It must stop, it must stop”: ​The Silent Child of Sexual Abuse in Shenaz Patel's Sensitive'​, in The Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language, Vol. 7, 38-45.

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