Lady in the Red Dress: Menstruation as a public spectacle
Aysha Farhana Chakkampully
This lecture explores menstruation as a complex social and technological phenomenon shaped by science, media, and consumer innovation. Drawing on Critical Menstruation Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS), it examines how period-tracking apps, innovative menstrual products and technologies, and cultural campaigns make menstruation visible or keep it hidden. Reflecting on how these shifts intersect with surveillance, embodiment, and the commodification of reproductive health, the session invites participants to consider how menstruation becomes a site of data collection, discourse, or display, raising questions about privacy, power, and digital intimacy.
Aysha Farhana Chakkampully is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. Her research focuses on menstruation and reproductive health, the sociology of the body, and religion and embodiment studies.
Seminar will be held in English.
No registration is needed.
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