Christine Labuski

It Hurts Down There (eBook, ePUB)

The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How does a woman describe a part of her body that much of society teaches her to never discuss? It Hurts Down There analyzes the largest known set of qualitative research data about vulvar pain conditions. It tells the story of one hundred women who struggled with this dilemma as they sought treatment for chronic and unexplained vulvar pain. Christine Labuski argues that the medical condition of vulvar pain cannot be adequately understood without exposing and interrogating cultural attitudes about female genitalia. The author's dual positioning as cultural anthropologist and former nurse practitioner strengthens her argument that discourses about "healthy" vulvas naturalize and reproduce heteronormative associations between genitalia, sex, and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438458878
• Artikelnr.: 60490949

Autorenporträt

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.