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Author Labuski, Christine, author

Title It hurts down there : the bodily imaginaries of female genital pain / Christine Labuski
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 324 pages)
Contents Insinuation : a biocultural condition -- Examination : clinical interpretations of vulvar pain -- Accumulation : the materiality of absence -- Manifestation : (un)conscious presencing -- Integration : coming together or falling apart -- Generation : novel morphologies -- Evaluation : concluding thoughts
Summary 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.-- Provided by Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Vulva -- Diseases.
Vagina -- Diseases.
Vulva.
Shame.
Women -- Health and hygiene.
Vulvar Diseases
Vulva -- United States
Vulvodynia -- psychology -- United States
Shame -- United States
Social Stigma -- United States
Vulvodynia -- ethnology -- United States
Women's Health -- United States
Vulvodynia -- psychology
Vulva
Vulvodynia -- ethnology
Social Stigma
Shame
Women's Health
Vaginal Diseases
MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Women -- Health and hygiene
Vulva
Shame
Vagina -- Diseases
Vulva -- Diseases
SUBJECT United States -- ethnology
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015001460
ISBN 9781438458878
1438458878
Other Titles Bodily imaginaries of female genital pain