It Hurts Down There: The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain
Author:   Christine Labuski
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438458854


Pages:   342
Publication Date:   01 September 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies.

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Author:   Christine Labuski
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438458854


ISBN 10:   1438458851
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   01 September 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments Prologue: A Fourteen-Foot-Tall Vagina 1. Insinuation: A Biocultural Condition 2. Examination: Clinical Interpretations of Vulvar Pain 3. Accumulation: The Materiality of Absence 4. Manifestation: (Un)conscious Presencing 5. Integration: Coming Together or Falling Apart 6. Generation: Novel Morphologies 7. Evaluation: Concluding Thoughts Epilogue: Collaboration Notes References Index

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This is an empirically engaged, ethnographically rich interpretation of genital pain in a cross section of women-but it is also so much more. Christine Labuski has a deep understanding of both the anatomical biomedical construction of female genitalia and manifestations of physical pain and suffering, which she combines with a marvelous cultural analysis of how entangled these biological 'facts' are with the contemporary culture of female loathing and self-loathing. - Lisa Jean Moore, coauthor of The Body: Social and Cultural Dissections


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Christine Labuski is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the coauthor (with Nicholas Copeland) of The World of Wal-Mart: Discounting the American Dream.

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