by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 28, 2014 | Internet
Always, the popular P&G pads, released a new empowerment video this week, asking us to re-think the phrase “like a girl”. The video is nice, but I really like Emily Hauser and Imani Gandy’s (a.k.a. Angry Black Lady) plan to make “like a...
by David Linton | Jun 23, 2014 | Books, History, Menstruation
A noteworthy addition to the menstrual canon was published last year by Sara Read, a professor in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University in England, titled Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan). As the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jun 21, 2014 | Internet
A new study in the journal Sex Education focuses on mothers’ reactions to their daughters’ menarche, revealing such meta-narratives as secrecy, sorrow, a lack of competency and knowledge, power, gender and motherhood. The researchers conclude that,...
by Holly Grigg-Spall | Jun 18, 2014 | Anatomy, Birth Control, Celebrities, Film, Independent Film, Media, Menstruation, Ovulation, Pregnancy, Reproduction, Sex
The recently released rom-com ‘Obvious Child’ has been discussed far and wide for its mature, sensitive and funny approach to the topic of abortion and yet I have not seen one comment on the fact that this movie also makes mainstream (and yes, funny) the topic of...
by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | Jun 17, 2014 | Birth Control, Communication, Health Care
Guest Post by Jennifer Aldoretta There seems to be a growing disconnect in recent years between physicians and their patients, and women are especially susceptible to this given our reliance on doctors for information about contraception. When compared to the...