... This chapter details local understandings of menstruation. It provides an ethnographic account of the situations in which menstrual blood generates disgust. The chapter critically engages with the work of Mary Douglas, where emphasis is put on the way bodily or social integrity is breached...

... be less clear now. This chapter asks why this may be so and why this moment marks and demands new thinking. It argues that our understandings of “the carnal,” with an emphasis more on the sexual than “on the flesh,” have been too constricted to account for the sorts of bodily intrusions and manipulations...

...Bodily Practices and Relocations ...

...Bodily Aesthetics and Iconologies ...

... menstruation embodiment blood uterus bodily surface ...

... bodily exposure political agency paternalism neoliberalism feminist vocabularies ...

... This interlude recounts an exchange in which a surgeon offered to build the author an Adam’s apple. It shows bodily sex as both playfully plastic and materially constrained. Adam’s apple plastic surgery masculinization ...