Out for Blood

Essays on Menstruation and Resistance

Breanne Fahs author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:State University of New York Press

Published:1st Nov '16

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Out for Blood cover

Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies category
Winner of the 2017 Distinguished Publication Award presented by the Association for Women in Psychology

Transporting the reader to worlds in which Komodo dragons prey on menstruating women, artists prowl the streets of Spain in blood-stained pants, and the myths of women bleeding in synchrony with each other are drawn and redrawn, these eleven essays on menstruation and resistance evoke thought-provoking tensions between silence and confrontation, shame and rebellion, and compliance and disobedience. Fusing together gender and feminist theory, critical body studies, political activism, and menstrual anarchy, Breanne Fahs illuminates the troubling omissions of menstrual coming-of-age narratives in the museum, the outdated terminology of "feminine hygiene," and the moral panics about blood that erupts from in and outside of our bathrooms, classrooms, and cell phones. Borrowing from a multitude of voices—single moms, trans teenagers, zine makers, menstrual artists, college students, tour guides, French philosophers, and culture jammers—Fahs forcefully argues for a new culture of menstruation, one where the joys, rhythms, and controversies of menstrual cycles collides with the defiant, shameless, and bold new possibilities of menstrual resistance.

"Though Out for Blood is funny and playful, Fahs also demands that we take menstruation seriously. In support of this demand, Fahs delivers a rigorous interrogation of cultural attitudes about menstruation, its meaning in the psychic life of people who menstruate, and possibilities for menstrual activism. Out for Blood is also a significant contribution to literature on feminist pedagogy." — Sex Roles

"Out for Blood is [a] lively interdisciplinary interrogation … It is a book that clears all the misconceptions about what essentially defines womanhood." — Cover Drive

ISBN: 9781438462134

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm

Weight: 227g

148 pages