It hurts down there : the bodily imaginaries of femal genital pain / Christine Labuski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Labuski, Christine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vulva--United States.

Vulva.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Bodily imaginaries of female genital pain

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does a woman describe a part of her body that much of society teaches her to never discuss? It Hurts Down There analyzes the largest known set of qualitative research data about vulvar pain conditions. It tells the story of one hundred women who struggled with this dilemma as they sought treatment for chronic and unexplained vulvar pain. Christine Labuski argues that the medical condition of vulvar pain cannot be adequately understood without exposing and interrogating cultural attitudes about female genitalia. The author's dual positioning as cultural anthropologist and former nurse practitioner strengthens her argument that discourses about "healthy" vulvas naturalize and reproduce heteronormative associations between genitalia, sex, and gender.

Contents:

Insinuation : a biocultural condition

Examination : clinical interpretations of vulvar pain

Accumulation : the materiality of absence

Manifestation : (un)conscious presencing

Integration : coming together or falling apart

Generation : novel morphologies

Evaluation : concluding thoughts.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438458878

1438458878

OCLC:

920446838