From Bloodless Respectability to Radical Menstrual Embodiment: Shifting Menstrual Politics from Private to Public
From Bloodless Respectability to Radical Menstrual Embodiment: Shifting Menstrual Politics from Private to Public
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DOI：
10.1086/707802
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发表时间：
2020-06-01
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1.9
通讯作者：
Fahs, Breanne
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作者：
Bobel, Chris;Fahs, Breanne
虽然月经激进主义有一个强大的历史，植根于身体自主和反消费主义的女权主义理想，但它目前的迭代优先考虑月经的贫血观点，这使它成为新自由主义政治的基础。就目前而言，月经活动主义经常将月经产品作为“解决”全世界月经耻辱的答案，同时使月经政治的其他方面（例如，身体反抗的重要性，月经的危险）。简而言之，尽管为有需要的人提供月经产品有明显的优点，但今天月经活动的物质焦点最终却讽刺地将月经移出了公众视野。在这篇文章中，我们批判性地研究了用于概念化月经激进主义的紧迫性的三个框架：公共卫生，全球发展的水环境卫生和个人卫生（WASH）部门，以及月经公平/期间贫困运动。找出每一个错误，我们主张一个新的月经行动主义的愿景，优先考虑我们所说的“激进的月经体现”，一个更越界的女权主义者的方法来理解耻辱和月经消极的根源，以及月经和生育，性行为和性别之间的联系。通过远离体面的危险政治及其以产品为中心的议程，激进的月经体现可以以不同的方式参与公共领域，因为月经从消毒，清洁和“适当”到混乱，交叉和多方面。
While menstrual activism has a robust history rooted in feminist ideals of bodily autonomy and anticonsumerism, its current iterations prioritize an anemic view of menstruation that grounds it in a neoliberal politics of respectability. As it stands now, menstrual activism has too often taken up menstrual products astheanswer to "solving" menstrual stigma throughout the world while making invisible other aspects of the politics of menstruation (e.g., the importance of bodily rebellion, the perils of trans menstruation). In short, even though there are clear merits to providing menstrual products to those in need, the material focus of today's menstrual activism has ultimately and ironically moved menstruation out of public view. In this essay, we critically examine three framings used to conceptualize the urgency of menstrual activism: public health, the water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector of global development, and the menstrual equity/period poverty movement. Finding fault with each, we argue for a new vision of menstrual activism that prioritizes what we term "radical menstrual embodiment," a more transgressively feminist approach to understanding stigma and the root causes of menstrual negativity alongside an invigorated connection between menstruation and fertility, sexuality, and gender. By moving away from the hazardous politics of respectability and its product-focused agenda, radical menstrual embodiment can differently engage with the public sphere as menstruation moves from sanitized, clean, and "proper" to messy, intersectional, and multifaceted.