{"product_id":"the-menstrual-imaginary-in-literature-notes-on-a-wild-fluidity-hardcover","title":"The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature: Notes on a Wild Fluidity - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatalie Rose Dyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book draws on literary, cultural, and critical examples forming a \u003ci\u003emenstrual imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e--a body of work by women writers and poets that builds up a concept of women's creativity in an effort to overturn menstrual prejudice. The text addresses key arbiters of the \u003ci\u003emenstrual imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e in a series of letters, including Sylvia Plath the initiator of 'the blood jet', Hélène Cixous the pioneer of a conceptual red ink and the volcanic unconscious, and Luce Irigaray the inaugurator of women's artistic process relative to a vital flow of desire based in sexual difference. The text also undertakes provocative against-the-grain re-readings of the \u003ci\u003eMedusa\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSphinx\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLittle Red Riding Hood, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Red Shoes, \u003c\/i\u003e as a means of affirmatively and poetically re-imagining a woman's flow. Natalie Rose Dyer argues for re-envisioning menstrual bleeding and creativity in reaction and resistance to ongoing and problematic societal views of menstruation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As you take this remarkable journey through the feminist menstrual imaginary, Natalie Rose Dyer provides an innovative and energetic intersectional reading of sexual difference and menstrual activism. In an equally intriguing poetic intervention and a convincing argument, Rose Dyer outlines how menstrual activism subverts patriarchal power structures by embracing the specificities and creative potential the embodied experience of menstruation offers. Her concept of the 'menstrual imaginary' playfully and provocatively dismantles the overlapping systems of power colonizing the disorganized material flows of women's bodies. This is a bold and extraordinarily perceptive rethinking of the feminist politics of corporeality.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Adrian Parr, Professor of Public Affairs and UNESCO Chair of Water and Human Settlements, University of Texas at Arlington, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book draws on literary, cultural, and critical examples forming a \u003ci\u003emenstrual imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e--a body of work by women writers and poets that builds up a concept of women's creativity in an effort to overturn menstrual prejudice. The text addresses key arbiters of the \u003ci\u003emenstrual imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e in a series of letters, including Sylvia Plath the initiator of 'the blood jet', Hélène Cixous the pioneer of a conceptual red ink and the volcanic unconscious, and Luce Irigaray the inaugurator of women's artistic process relative to a vital flow of desire based in sexual difference. The text also undertakes provocative against-the-grain re-readings of the \u003ci\u003eMedusa\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSphinx\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLittle Red Riding Hood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Red Shoes, \u003c\/i\u003e as a means of affirmatively and poetically re-imagining a woman's flow. Natalie Rose Dyer argues for re-envisioning menstrual bleeding and creativity in reaction and resistance to ongoing and problematic societal views of menstruation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatalie Rose Dyer\u003c\/b\u003e teaches creative writing and literary studies at Deakin University, Australia. Her poetry and essays appear in literary journals such as \u003ci\u003eMeanjin Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAustralian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCordite Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMascara Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe University of Canberra Vice-chancellors International Poetry Prize Anthologies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Chiron Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wisconsin Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 22, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42102080602247,"sku":"9783030598129","price":194.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/c043d4030c8f467659f2f09d6d15ba60.webp?v=1732400116","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-menstrual-imaginary-in-literature-notes-on-a-wild-fluidity-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}