Between Body, Technology and Society
Sophie Bauer: „Das Natürlichste, was eine Frau haben kann.“ Eine Soziologie der Menstrualität. Campus 2025
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https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2026.419Keywords:
Biopolitics, Care, Cyborg, Body, Menstruality, NormativityAbstract
In eight chapters, Bauer traces a line from feminist debates and historical conceptualizations to contemporary practices, technologies, and politics of menstruality. The foundation of the work is a re-perspectivization of menstruation as a material-discursive practice, carried out with reference both to the ideas of Donna Haraway and to those of Critical Menstruation Studies. At the center of the study are empirical insights that make visible and analytically situate diverse experiences, materials, and practices of menstruation. The book concludes with a plea for an ethics of care—one that does not individualize and privatize menstruality, but instead elevates it to a collective concern.
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