Ungendering menstruation / Ela Przybyło.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Przybylo, Ela, 1985- author.

Series:

Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)

Forerunners

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dysmenorrhea.

Menstruation--Psychological aspects.

Menstruation.

Dysmenorrhea--Popular works.

Menstruation--Psychological aspects--Popular works.

Menstruation--Popular works.

Medical Subjects:

Dysmenorrhea.

Menstruation.

Physical Description:

95 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2025.

Summary:

Why and how menstrual pain needs to be incorporated into discussions of gender, embodiment, and disability Honing a "cranky" approach to being a menstruating body expected to accept and embrace trauma, Ungendering Menstruation examines menstrual suppression, toxicity, and the cooptation of menstrual positivity rhetoric. Drawing on their own experiences as a toxic shock survivor and a menstrual pain and period dysphoria sufferer, Ela Przybyło questions why, on what terms, and for whom menstruation has been fixed around experiences of pain. Instead, they present a vision for menstrual justice that refuses the womaning of bleeding and the further erasure, dismissal, and denial of menstrual pain as real pain. If menstruating is framed as somatechnically elective, Przybyło contends, it provides avenues for both celebrating and appreciating cultures of bleeding as well as for remaining critical of the ways in which bleeding has been used as a transphobic and sexist tool to fix gender in place.

Contents:

Introduction. Blood, Pain, and Gender : Rethinking Bleeding for a Somatechnical Age

Miserable Menstruators : Toward a Cranky Approach to Bleeding

Suppressing Histories : On the Womaning of Bleeding

Toxicity, Environmental Leak : On Pain and Menstrual Trauma.

Introduction. Blood, Pain, and Gender: Rethinking Bleeding for a Somatechnical Age

1. Miserable Menstruators: Toward a Cranky Approach to Bleeding

2. Suppressing Histories: On the Womaning of Bleeding

3. Toxicity, Environmental Leak: On Pain and Menstrual Trauma

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Author Biography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-95).

ISBN:

9781517918378

1517918375

OCLC:

1459869224

Publisher Number:

CIPO000229078