{"paper_id":"069f2f61-aded-4190-bd34-f7fa6652cc71","body_text":"ABSTRACT\nHealth Activism and Sexual Politics: Feminist Engagements with Health, Illness and the Body explores the intersection of health activism and sexual politics through both traditional research chapters and innovative contributions on creative and scholarly practice as activism.\nThe book showcases the analytical power of feminist research at the intersection of sexuality, health, and activism. As digital technologies create new possibilities and challenges for politics, sex, and health interventions, the contributors demonstrate diverse ways to engage meaningfully with activism. Spanning Latin America, Southern Africa, Northern Europe, the UK, and North America, the collection offers alternative epistemologies to hegemonic biomedical knowledge about illness, pleasure, pain, and marginalization. The interdisciplinary approach incorporates feminist technoscience studies alongside perspectives from the medical humanities, sexuality studies, gender studies, design studies, and drama studies. Each chapter challenges inequities and reimagines possibilities for health and well-being through collective action, creative engagement, and scholarly inquiry. Together, they insist on recognizing the multiplicity of experiences around illness and desire, making knowledge that values lived experiences as communicable, worthy of care, and deserving of recognition.\nThis book will appeal to scholars, students, activists, and artists interested in health, sexual practice, gender, activism, and public engagement.\nThe Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\npart 1|23 pages\nIntroduction\npart 2|64 pages\nHealth activism and public mobilization\nchapter 2|18 pages\nThe changing landscape of endometriosis activism in Finland: at the crossroads of personalization and digitalization of health\nchapter 3|18 pages\nRisks, pleasures, and desires: attending to the sexual politics of gynaecological cancer patient activism\nchapter 4|26 pages\nAbya Yala bleeds, exists, and resists: introducing the Latin American social movement for menstrual dignity\npart 3|66 pages\nCreative practice and the arts as health activism\nchapter 5|21 pages\nHysterectomy: BedRock – emplacing and making visible experiences of surgery for hysterectomy and surgical menopause through creative practice\nchapter 6|26 pages\nFeminist performance-making: radically kind theatre-making redressing the act of being vulnerabilized\npart 4|55 pages\nFeminist scholarship as health activism","source_license":"CC0","license_restricted":false}