by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 29, 2012 | Film, Independent Film, Literature, Menstruation
Guest Post by Lydia Aponte — Marymount Manhattan College In Professor David Linton’s Social Construction and Images of Menstruation course, our class watched two documentaries involving menstruation and menstrual suppression. Both Period: The End of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 25, 2012 | Internet
Second City responds to last week’s Congressional hearings on contraception, with all-female hearings on men’s health. Sociological Images discusses the packaging of the pill, using images from a gallery of pill package photos associated with the PBS...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 22, 2012 | Birth Control, magazines, Politics
In response to Rick Santorum’s recent assertion that birth control only costs “a few dollars” and therefore there shouldn’t be such a big fuss about denying insurance coverage, Mother Jones published a birth control calculator this week that...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 20, 2012 | Communication, Disposable menstrual products, Menstruation
Guest Post by Saniya Ghanoui I always felt that airline travel involves building many short-lasting friendships where people bond over delayed flights, weather problems and luggage issues. Recently I was traveling and had to make a connection in the Dallas/Ft. Worth...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 18, 2012 | Internet
Dr. Jen Gunter explains what an unsafe abortion looks like. In 2012. Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones The Crimson Campaign recently wrote about the relationship between Female Genital Cutting and menstruation. In last Saturday’s...
