Epistemological, political and social transformations and challenges in menstrual alternative cultures

Abstract

This article, which is based on an ethnographic research, focuses on the analysis of the social, political and emotional characteristics of the alternative politics and cultures of menstruation, as well as the changes that are happening around the perception and experience of menstrual. For this, the article, aims to address the intensification and diversification of menstrual proposals in recent decades and the various political-sensory strategies followed by their protagonists, as well as the feminist and health ideologies that underlie and are generated in them. In this way, it is intended to delve into menstrual activism, from the idea that this analysis can also serve to identify and study more general social transformations. The article concludes by proposing some epistemological, political and social challenges to continue investigating these alternative cultures, and in its potential to question social inequalities.