Breanne Fahs 
Out for Blood [EPUB ebook] 
Essays on Menstruation and Resistance

Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Women’s Studies category


Winner of the 2017 Distinguished Publication Award presented by the Association for Women in Psychology



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anarchy, Breanne Fahs illuminates the troubling omissions of menstrual coming-of-age narratives in the museum, the outdated terminology of ‘feminine hygiene, ‘ and the moral panics about blood that erupts from in and outside of our bathrooms, classrooms, and cell phones.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

Daftar Isi

Introduction—On Dragons and Death Threats: Telling New Menstrual Stories




Part I: Theorizing Cycles and Stains



1. Cycling Together: Menstrual Synchrony as a Projection of Gendered Solidarity



2. The Menstrual Stain as Graffiti




Part II: Dispatches from the Blogosphere



3. In Praise of Cycles



4. “Feminine Hygiene” and the Ultimate Double Standard



5. Adventures on Komodo Island



6. Menstruation according to Apple



7. Collateral Damage: Throwing Menstruation Out of the Museum




Part III: Blood on the Couch



8. Blood on the Couch: Disclosures about Menstruation in the Therapy Room



9. The Menstruating Male Body




Part IV: Menarchy and Menstrual Activism



10. Raising Bloody Hell: Inciting Menstrual Panics through Campus and Community Activism



11. Smear It on Your Face: Menstrual Art, Performance, and Zines as Menstrual Activism



Acknowledgments

References

Index

Tentang Penulis

Breanne Fahs is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of
Performing Sex: The Making and Unmaking of Women’s Erotic Lives, also published by SUNY Press,
Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol), and the coeditor (with Mary L. Dudy and Sarah Stage) of
The Moral Panics of Sexuality.