... Chapter 2 introduces the term gyno-trauma to rearticulate gynecological trauma and emphasize the emotional and social pain caused by gynecology. It charts Black lesbians' negative affective experiences with intersectional preconceito to rethink the intertwined facets of redefined...

... The ethnographic interludes before and after chapter 3 cross the reader temporally and spatially as Faul examines how gynecology, both sociohistorically and in the present, is an imperialist, colonial, and modern contact zone. These slices of sociomedical history through slavery eugenics...

... gynecologic trauma prejudice emotions body intersectionality ...

... premenstrual tension menstrual cycle nature/artifice gynecology abortion ...

... unseen flesh worth-making Black feminisms witnessing gynecology ...

... Chapter 1 introduces a lived bem-estar (well-being) by centering the meaning of Black lesbian vivência(s) and turns to the notions of sexual health broadly and body politics that expose social disequilibrium within gynecological encounters. Falu argues that Brazilian Black lesbians adjust...

... The introduction foregrounds the book's main framework, unseen flesh, to understand the layered ways that Brazilian Black lesbians produce knowledge about race, gender, sexuality, class, and medical approaches through their gynecologic visits. The introduction opens with an ethnographic story...

... Chapter 4 brings us into the world of worth-making in intersubjective relations and examines how Brazilian Black lesbians respond to the social world with its preconceito and violence beyond the gynecologic encounter (and because of it). Falu refers to how Black queer women shapeshift...