Menstration Now What Does Blood Perform? by Kaite, Berkeley

Menstration Now What Does Blood Perform? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781772581881)

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Menstration Now What Does Blood Perform? by Kaite, Berkeley

Menstration Now What Does Blood Perform?

$18.95
Menstration Now What Does Blood Perform? by Kaite, Berkeley

Menstration Now What Does Blood Perform?

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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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 phantasized menstrual blood in biographies of her; contemporary menstrual art; menstrual blood as liminal space in Ingmar Bergman's film Cries and Whispers; and, unruly blood in the TV show Orange is the New Black. Blood is performative: disruptive, noisy, aesthetically fluid, difficult to discipline. It can thus, now as always, be performed again in the service of new meanings and experiences.

Author: Berkeley Kaite
ISBN-10: 1772581887
ISBN-13: 9781772581881
Publisher: Demeter Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2019
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
By Berkeley Kaite
By Berkeley Kaite
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Berkeley Kaite is Associate Professor in the Department of English at McGill University. She has written on pornographic magazines, the iconography of Jacqueline Onassis, the photographs of Sally Mann, among others.

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