Gender and Ontological Friction in Endometriosis Diagnosis

Title

Gender and Ontological Friction in Endometriosis Diagnosis

Creator

James, Annie; Warrier, Manjusha G.; Ansaari, Neda

Description

Endometriosis often struggles to consolidate as a recognizable condition during biomedical encounters; in India, this unfolds at the interstice of biomedicine and gender-caste-class persistence. We contribute to contemporary endometriosis discourse by considering how, given the ontological politics of Indian womens reproductive health care, symptoms move across porous configurations without consolidating as disease. Through reflexive thematic analysis, informed by feminist new materialism, of interviews with nine cisgender women in urban India, we trace ontological friction and its influence on patient care practices. We identify this friction as the condition through which diagnostic delay continually emerges. 2026 Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.

Source

Women's Reproductive Health;Volume;13;Issue;2;pp.539-554

Date

01-01-2026

Publisher

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

Subject

Endometriosis; feminist new materialism; gender; India; ontology

Coverage

James A., Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Warrier M.G., Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Ansaari N., Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library

Relation

ISSN: 23293691;

Format

online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1080/23293691.2026.2629426

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