by Holly Grigg-Spall | Dec 5, 2010 | Menstruation
The UK Daily Mail newspaper last week reported that a company in Norway required that its female employees wear a red bracelet when menstruating as a way to monitor the extra toilet breaks it is assumed they need at that time. Firstly, and aside from all the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 4, 2010 | Internet
Dysmenorrhea and constipation both occur more frequently in young women who skip breakfast, according to survey research published in December, 2010, issue of Appetite. Joan B. Wolf’s new book, Is Breast Best?, argues that there is no scientific reason to prefer...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 4, 2010 | DIY, FemCare, Independent Film, Menstruation
Vanessa Tolkin Meyer recently published her thesis film on Vimeo: it’s a short film about the menstrual cup. It’s also about attitudes toward menstruation and how we talk about it....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 1, 2010 | Menstruation
A small article in the Toronto Observer (apparently published last week but just showing up in my RSS reader today) reports on the work of Yara Doleh, an independent scholar who recently presented a lecture titled “Menstruation and Stigma” at the Centre...
by Giovanna Chesler | Nov 30, 2010 | Birth Control, magazines, Pharmaceutical
Rare is the feature on women’s health from a magazine hip to New York City’s nightlife, dining, arts and entertainment. Within the past two months alone the magazine featured articles on the Julie Taymor Spiderman play, Jimmy Fallon and John Stewart. Not...