书目名称 | The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature |
副标题 | Notes on a Wild Flui |
编辑 | Natalie Rose Dyer |
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概述 | Highlights contemporary feminist scholarship and activism as well as the various treatments of menstruation among critical theorists.Unites critical menstrual studies with literary studies.Argues for |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | .This book draws on literary, cultural, and critical examples forming a .menstrual imaginary.—a body of work by women writers and poets that builds up a concept of women’s creativity in an effort to overturn menstrual prejudice. The text addresses key arbiters of the .menstrual imaginary. in a series of letters, including Sylvia Plath the initiator of ‘the blood jet’, Hélène Cixous the pioneer of a conceptual red ink and the volcanic unconscious, and Luce Irigaray the inaugurator of women’s artistic process relative to a vital flow of desire based in sexual difference. The text also undertakes provocative against-the-grain re-readings of the .Medusa., the .Sphinx., .Little Red Riding Hood,. and .The Red Shoes,. as a means of affirmatively and poetically re-imagining a woman’s flow. Natalie Rose Dyer argues for re-envisioning menstrual bleeding and creativity in reaction and resistance to ongoing andproblematic societal views of menstruation.. |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | feminist theory; critical menstrual studies; free bleeding; menstrual bleeding; Pussy Riot; menstrual sup |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59813-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-59815-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-59813-6Series ISSN 2662-9364 Series E-ISSN 2662-9372 |
issn_series | 2662-9364 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |