Publications
Books, Articles, Chapters and Edited Volumes
IN PRINT
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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]
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Tomlinson, Maria (2021) From Menstruation to the Menopause: The Female Fertility Cycle in Contemporary Women's Writing in French, Liverpool University Press.
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Tomlinson, Maria (2021) ‘Moody and Monstrous Menstruators: The Semiotics of the Menstrual Meme on Social Media’, Social Semiotics, 31:5
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Galis, Polly, Tomlinson, Maria, and Wimbush, Antonia (eds) (2021) Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture, Peter Lang.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
Other Publications and Media appearances
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Interviewed about 'Using Social Media to Communicate Effectively with young people about menstruation' on BBC Radio Sheffield
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Contributed to BSI guidance on menstruation, menstrual health and menopause in the workplace (BS 30416)
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BS 30416 Executive Briefing (summary of the BSI guidance on menstruation, menstrual health and menopause in the workplace)
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Holowka, Eileen, Tomlinson, Maria, Bak Kirk, Ulrik and Sondergaard, Mie Kusk (2022) "Endometriosis: How advocacy, awareness and algorithms could shorten the long wait for diagnosis and treatment" The Conversation
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Interviewed by Vanessa Feltz about menstrual activism, education, and stigma on BBC Radio London (March 2022).
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Interviewed for the Periodic Chats Podcast, Series 1, Episode 2 "Representing Periods with Dr. Maria Tomlinson" (2021, Available on Spotify)
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‘Research as Impact: Talking with Teenagers about Menstruation’ (2021) The Polyphony