Letras Escarlata - Estudos sobre a representación da menstruación

The essays gathered in Letras escarlata consider new ways of representing the (gendered) female body through contemporary symbolic, literary and cultural collective imagination. How are patriarchal models and codes subverted in the field of communication and the arts? What social and ideological changes underpin this paradigm shift? These problematic issues are addressed from different scientific and linguistic fields—from anthropology and philosophy to literary and cultural studies—with the aim of opening new lines of thought from a gender studies perspective.