Hilekoaren antropologiara hurbilketa: gorputzaren eta odolaren arau eta politikak

‘You don’t like this blood? Well, too bad!’ Alternative cultures of menstruation and the performativity of disgust

“…Researchers in this area have thoroughly examined the disgust that menstrual blood produces in some societies and the stigma related to it (see, for example, Bobel, 2010, 2015; Esteban, 2001; Fahs, 2016; Gottlieb, 2020; Kissling, 2006; Laws, 1990; Martin, 1987), as well as different forms of activism that question that disgust. Through ethnographic research undertaken between 2008 and 2019, I examined feminist debates, gender practices, and social changes that developed within alternative politics and cultures of menstruation in Spain (Guilló Arakistain, 2020a, 2020b, 2022, 2023a). I extend this line of inquiry by examining the aesthetic performativity of disgust as a feminist strategy with enormous potential to challenge gender stereotypes and inequalities.…”