- The “father of American gynecology” was an abusive one: In her Sunday Footnote last week, Melissa Harris-Perry talked about women’s bodies, and how Black women’s bodies were used against their will by James Marion Sims as he conducted experiments without anesthesia on his slaves to develop modern gynecological instruments and procedures.
- At the Lunette Blog this week, they’re telling the history of the menstrual cup — those simple, amazing little devices have been around longer than you think.
- Surprising new research overturns the decades-old idea that women are born with all the eggs they will ever have: Women of reproductive age carry ovarian stem cells, meaning that they can produce new eggs.
- At Alternet, Sara Robinson examines deeper implications of why patriarchal men are utterly terrified of birth control.
- The popular sitcom Modern Family did an entire episode about menstruation. And it wasn’t funny. Not even one good period joke.
- Men who trust women think women should control their own bodies.