{"product_id":"ungendering-menstruation-9781517918378","title":"Ungendering Menstruation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy and how menstrual pain needs to be incorporated into discussions of gender, embodiment, and disability\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Honing a \"cranky\" approach to being a menstruating body expected to accept and embrace trauma, \u003ci\u003eUngendering Menstruation\u003c\/i\u003e examines menstrual suppression, toxicity, and the cooptation of menstrual positivity rhetoric. Drawing on their own experiences as a toxic shock survivor and a menstrual pain and period dysphoria sufferer, Ela Przybylo questions why, on what terms, and for whom menstruation has been fixed around experiences of pain. Instead, they present a vision for menstrual justice that refuses the womaning of bleeding and the further erasure, dismissal, and denial of menstrual pain as real pain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e If menstruating is framed as somatechnically elective, Przybylo contends, it provides avenues for both celebrating and appreciating cultures of bleeding as well as for remaining critical of the ways in which bleeding has been used as a transphobic and sexist tool to fix gender in place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ela Przybylo is associate professor of English and core faculty in women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Illinois State University. She is author of \u003ci\u003eAsexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eOn the Politics of Ugliness\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51424342704402,"sku":"9781517918378","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a258d62e-4eef-4a5b-84e8-03cd9a997a7e.jpg?v=1751371609","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ungendering-menstruation-9781517918378","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}