Publications

FORTHCOMING

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

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IN PRINT

• Tomlinson, M. (2026) ‘Sexual Exploitation and Gendered Power Dynamics: Female Genital Mutilation in Adelle Barry’s ‘En Attendant Minuit’ (2015) in McIllvaney, S. and Jordan, S. (eds). Women and Power in Contemporary French and Francophone Societies. University of Wales Press, 101-120.

• Frost, L., Dixon S., Tomlinson et al. 2026. “Health Messaging in Menstrual Product Marketing on Social Media: Neoliberalism and Normalisation,” Sociology of Health & Illness

• 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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