Labuski It Hurts Down There

The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5887-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Labuski, Christine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Fourteen-Foot-Tall Vagina

1. Insinuation: A Biocultural Condition

2. Examination: Clinical Interpretations of Vulvar Pain

3. Accumulation: The Materiality of Absence

4. Manifestation: (Un)conscious Presencing

5. Integration: Coming Together or Falling Apart

6. Generation: Novel Morphologies

7. Evaluation: Concluding Thoughts

Epilogue: Collaboration

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christine Labuski is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the coauthor (with Nicholas Copeland) of The World of Wal-Mart: Discounting the American Dream.