The menstrual imaginary in literature: notes on a wild fluidity

by Dyer, Natalie Rose

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Full title :The menstrual imaginary in literature : notes on a wild fluidity / Natalie Rose Dyer.

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"As you take this remarkable journey through the feminist menstrual imaginary, Natalie Rose Dyer provides an innovative and energetic intersectional reading of sexual difference and menstrual activism. In an equally intriguing poetic intervention and a convincing argument, Rose Dyer outlines how menstrual activism subverts patriarchal power structures by embracing the specificities and creative potential the embodied experience of menstruation offers. Her concept of the 'menstrual imaginary playfully and provocatively dismantles the overlapping systems of power colonizing the disorganized material flows of womens bodies. This is a bold and extraordinarily perceptive rethinking of the feminist politics of corporeality." -- Adrian Parr, Professor of Public Affairs and UNESCO Chair of Water and Human Settlements, University of Texas at Arlington, USA 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 womens 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 womens 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 womans flow. Natalie Rose Dyer argues for re-envisioning menstrual bleeding and creativity in reaction and resistance to ongoing and problematic societal views of menstruation.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030598136, 3030598136
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-59813-6
oclc:on1224142272
LC Classification:PN471
Dewey Decimal:809/.89287

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Book Notes -- Contents -- Part I: What Is the Menstrual Imaginary? -- Chapter 1: Want to Start a Pussy Riot? -- The Essentialist Debate -- Feminist Perspectives -- Contemporary Menstrual Activism -- Book Structure -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Chapter 2: Revisioning the Wild Zone -- PMS: A Dominant Patriarchal Story about Menstruation -- Magic, Mana and Contagion -- The Sorceress, the Hysteric and the Menstruating Woman -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Chapter 3: Dear Sylvia: The Blood Jet Is Poetry -- Bibliography

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Critiques littéraires Écrits de femmes -- Histoire et critique Feminism in literature Féminisme -- Documentation Féminisme dans la littérature Feminist literature literary criticism Literature -- Women authors Menstruation dans la littérature Menstruation in literature