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Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Interrogations of Menstruation, Reproductive Technologies and Medical Discourse

Author(s) Ms. Baishali Deb Roy
Country India
Abstract The contested terrain of women’s bodies as domains of control, intervention, and resistance is examined in this paper. Feminist research bolsters a reappraisal of medical discourses that have historically illustrated menstruation and reproduction as abnormal, unreasonable as atypical, or apart from inadequate to substantiate entrenched power relations. This study critically examines the ways in which the female body has been medicalized and regulated, particularly through narratives that portray reproductive technology and menstruation as problems that need to be monitored. The study also hurdles generic descriptions about sensory encounters by interpreting how the correlations of gender, class, caste, and culture influence women’s occurrences with menstruation and reproductive health. It highlights the disparities in access, representation and autonomy in reproductive health practices across different sociocultural contexts by highlighting intersectionality. In the culmination, this exploration surveys at feminist standpoints that contradict the unfavourable expectations and the commercialization affiliated with menstruation and reproductive apparatuses. It emphasizes the importance of reclaiming women’s experience knowledge and bodily autonomy through the use of feminist perspective theory, biopolitics and reproductive justice principles. By presenting women as active agents who have the power to modify their physical experiences and narratives, rather than as passive objects of medical intervention, this study seeks to further feminist discourse on body politics.
Keywords Feminist Body Politics, Menstruation, Reproductive Technologies, Medical Discourse, Bodily Autonomy
Published In Volume 7, Issue 5, September-October 2025
Published On 2025-10-17
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i05.58079
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