Thinking Menstrual Blood

Australian Feminist Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 31, 2000, Pages 91-101

  Rosengarten, Marsha ^a  

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EID: 0034385634     PISSN: 08164649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713611919     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. For a discussion of the essentialist/social constructionist debate including its shortcomings, see Diana Fuss, Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference (Routledge) London, 1989, p. 3.
2. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (Routledge) London, 1990, p. x.
3. Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter (Routledge) New York & London, 1993, p. 34.
4. Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger (Routledge and Kegan Paul) London, 1966; Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: an Essay on Abjection (Columbia University Press) New York, 1982.
5. Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger (Routledge and Kegan Paul) London, 1966; Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: an Essay on Abjection (Columbia University Press) New York, 1982.
6. Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power (Stanford University Press) Stanford, CA, 1997, p. 2.
7. Johnson & Johnson Perhaps You've Noticed You're Changing, an educational booklet produced and distributed in Australia, 1995, p. 7.
8. Emily Martin, The Woman & the Body (Beacon Press) Boston, MA, 1987.
9. Martin, The Woman & the Body, p. 48.
10. Martin, The Woman & the Body, p. 50.
11. Martin, The Woman & the Body, p. 52.
12. For an illustration of conceptual re-working of the bodily diversity see David, C. Page, et al., 'The Sex-Determining Region of the Human Y Chromosome Encodes a Finger Protein', Cell, no. 51, 1988, pp. 1091-104.
13. For a personal account of this treatment and of political organising now taking place in response to it, see Cheryl Chase, 'Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism' in A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 1988.
14. Anne Fausto-Sterling, 'The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough' The Sciences, vol. 33 no. 2, March/April 1993, p. 22. It is not clear in this article whether the individuals with the capacity to produce both eggs and sperm are those who menstruate but this is neither necessary nor an appropriate relevancy to my argument.
15. While I am not putting forward Kristeva's psychoanalytic account of the formation of the subject, her concept of le corps propre - translated as the clean and proper body, which may also be taken to mean one's own clean and proper body see translator's note in Kristeva's Powers of Honor - provides a useful description of the imaginary form that has come to be seen as true materiality.