Out for blood : essays on menstruation and resistance / Breanne Fahs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fahs, Breanne, author.

Series:

SUNY series, praxis, theory in action

Suny series, praxis: Theory in action

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Menstruation.

Menstruation--Social aspects.

Menstruation--Public opinion.

Physical Description:

viii, 139 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]

Summary:

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anarchy, Breanne Fahs illuminates the troubling omissions of menstrual coming-of-age narratives in the museum, the outdated terminology of "feminine hygiene," and the moral panics about blood that erupts from in and outside of our bathrooms, classrooms, and cell phones.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. Book jacket.

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

Acknowledgments

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438462134

1438462131

9781438462127

1438462123

OCLC:

947816334