Conner Berkley D.
Iowa City, IA, USA
This chapter explores the protest strategies of Periods for Pence, a collective of Indiana menstruators and allies who organized in response to the passing of extreme antiabortion legislation, House Enrolled Act 1337, by then-Governor Mike Pence in 2016. Through an analysis of the group’s transcribed calls to Pence’s office, as well as various social media posts, Conner illustrates how Periods for Pence engaged in acts of narrative sharing, humor, and symbolic reversal to craft a cohesive account of varied experiences with menstruation. The study also draws on logics of menstruation to rhetorically re-moralize abortion as necessary. Conner concludes by demonstrating how critical study of menstruation-related activism asks scholars to rethink traditional conceptualizations of static “waves” of feminism and feminist rhetorical theorizing.
本章探讨了“向彭斯经期抗议”组织的抗议策略，该组织由印第安纳州的经期女性及其盟友组成，她们是为回应时任州长迈克·彭斯于2016年通过的极端反堕胎立法《众议院登记法案1337》而组织起来的。通过分析该组织拨打给彭斯办公室的电话记录以及各种社交媒体帖子，康纳说明了“向彭斯经期抗议”组织是如何通过叙事分享、幽默和象征反转等行为，来精心构建一个关于经期多样经历的连贯叙述的。该研究还运用了月经的逻辑，从修辞角度将堕胎重新定义为必要之举。康纳最后指出，对与月经相关的激进主义的批判性研究要求学者重新思考女权主义静态“浪潮”和女权主义修辞理论的传统概念。
