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Subject(s)

• Menstruation [Browse]
• Menstruation—Social aspects [Browse]
• Menstruation—Public opinion [Browse]

Series

• SUNY series, praxis, theory in action [More in this series]
• Suny series, praxis: Theory in action

Summary note

Transporting the reader to worlds in which Komodo dragons prey on menstruating women, artists prowl the streets of Spain in blood-stained pants, and the myths of women bleeding in synchrony with each other are drawn and redrawn, these eleven essays on menstruation and resistance evoke thought-provoking tensions between silence and confrontation, shame and rebellion, and compliance and disobedience. Fusing together gender and feminist theory, critical body studies, political activism, and menstrual anarchy, Breanne Fahs illuminates the troubling omissions of menstrual coming-of-age narratives in the museum, the outdated terminology of "feminine hygiene," and the moral panics about blood that erupts from in and outside of our bathrooms, classrooms, and cell phones. Borrowing from a multitude of voices--single moms, trans teenagers, zine makers, menstrual artists, college students, tour guides, French philosophers, and culture jammers--Fahs forcefully argues for a new culture of menstruation, one where the joys, rhythms, and controversies of menstrual cycles collides with the defiant, shameless, and bold new possibilities of menstrual resistance. --Publisher description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-136) and index.

Contents

• Introduction : on dragons and death threats : telling new menstrual stories
• Theorizing cycles and stains
• Cycling together : menstrual synchrony as a projection of gendered solidarity
• The menstrual stain as graffiti
• Dispatches from the blogosphere
• In praise of cycles
• "Feminine hygiene" and the ultimate double standard
• Adventures on Komodo island
• Menstruation according to apple
• Collateral damage : throwing menstruation out of the museum
• Blood on the couch
• Blood on the couch : disclosures about menstruation in the therapy room
• The menstruating male body
• Menarchy and menstrual activism
• Raising bloody hell : inciting menstrual panics through campus and community activism
• Smear it on your face : menstrual art, performance, and zines as menstrual activism.

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ISBN

• 9781438462134 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 1438462131 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 9781438462127 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 1438462123 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 9781438462141 ((ebook))
• 143846214X ((ebook))

LCCN

2016005972

OCLC

947816334

Other standard number

• 40026509432

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