Menstruation now : what does blood perform? /

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 shiftin...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kaite, Berkeley (Editor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Bradford, ON : Demeter Press, [2019]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvg252tc
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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 page
Physical Description:1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
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