1st Edition
Health Activism and Sexual Politics Feminist Engagements with Health, Illness and the Body
1. Engaging health activism, sexual politics, and feminism
Lisa Lindén, Josefin Persdotter and Emily Jay Nicholls
Part 2 Health Activism and Public Mobilization
2. The changing landscape of endometriosis activism in Finland: At the crossroads of personalization and digitalization of health
Maria Temmes and Venla Oikkonen
3. Risks, pleasures, and desires: Attending to the sexual politics of gynaecological cancer patient activism
Lisa Lindén
4. Abya Yala bleeds, exists and resists: Introducing the Latin American social movement for menstrual dignity
Sofia Cifuentes Contador
Part 3 Creative Practice and the Arts as Health Activism
5. HYSTERECTOMY: BEDROCK – emplacing and making visible experiences of surgery for hysterectomy and surgical menopause through creative practice
Louise Ann Wilson
6. Feminist performance-making: Radically kind theatre-making redressing the act of being vulnerabilised
Katharine Low
7. Feminist activist strategies for designing sex technologies
Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard
Part 4 Feminist Scholarship as Health Activism
8. Feminist prostate care?
Ericka Johnson
9. Always already menstrual activist: Elaborations on being activist-scholar
Josefin Persdotter
10. Feminist empiricism as feminist activism: Lessons from the GenderSci Lab
Helen Zhao and Kelsey Ichikawa
Biography
Lisa Lindén is an associate professor of gender and technology in the Division for Science, Technology and Society (STS) at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Emily Jay Nicholls is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Global Health, University College London, UK.
Josefin Persdotter is an activist-scholar and sociologist, currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Division for Science, Technology and Society (STS) at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
