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Menstruation now : what does blood perform? / edited by Berkeley Kaite.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Menstruation--Social aspects.
- Menstruation.
- Menstrual cycle--Social aspects.
- Menstrual cycle.
- Menstruation on television.
- Menstruation in motion pictures.
- Menstruation in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bradford, ON : Demeter Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Each of the eight chapters in this volume addresses menstruation and/or menstrual blood in various media sites with a view to answering the question, what does blood perform? Menstrual blood may be enduringly feminine but it is never just one thing. Menstruation Now contains chapters on: the shifting "conversation" of menstruation in contemporary advertising; menstrual blood and the "female complaint" in Alice Munro's short story, "Chance"; the signification of menstrual blood in legal discourse; blood as a para-text in pornographic films; the placement of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's phantasized menstrual blood in biographies of her; contemporary menstrual art; menstrual blood as liminal space in Ingmar Bergman's film Cries and Whispers; and, unruly blood in the TV show Orange is the New Black. Blood is performative: disruptive, noisy, aesthetically fluid, difficult to discipline. It can thus, now as always, be performed again in the service of new meanings and experiences.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Notes on the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-77258-236-0
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