“For myself and others like me”: women’s contributions to vulva-positive social media

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“For myself and others like me”: women’s contributions to vulva-positive social media

Vulva-positive websites, a sub-type of body-positive sites, reveal women’s discursive, affective, and pragmatic responses to ideals of “normal” and “beautiful” female genitalia. Body-positive sites have been positioned by critical feminist and Foucauldian theorists as facilitating women’s self-surve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Mowat, H., Dobson, Amy, McDonald, K., Fisher, J., Kirkman, M.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2018
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74691

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