Breaking Taboos: Body and Subversion in three Female Galician Poets

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to develop a relection on the rules of patriarchy and the material and discursive limits that they impose. The traditional mechanisms of taboo - such as silencing and invisibility - and its connection with the impure and abject will also be analyzed,by putting the focus on the concious break from the constraints imposed. The representation of menstruation in recent decades will be explored as a manifestation of an assumed and claimed body, the result of a critical spirit and a desire for empowerment based on feminist thinking. Finally,the treatment of menstruation in poetic texts by three contemporary Galician authors - Lupe Gómez, Yolanda Castaño and Estíbaliz Espinosa- will be analyzed.