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... 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 ...

... sexual subjectivity rape culture bodily autonomy victim-blaming sexual shame ...

... of the nation-state as autonomous and independent—a terror we can trace in fragmented territorial forms. Queering political geography, this chapter incorporates analyses by feminist geographers and philosophers to propose alternative and more inclusive bodily metaphors. monsters archipelagoes enclaves...