by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 31, 2010 | Internet
It’s Halloween weekend! Our Bodies, Ourselves is collecting personal stories about women’s relationships with the text for their 40th anniversary edition, due next year. The yoga pose known as the lotus can help ease menstrual cramps. Alarm about how use...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 27, 2010 | Menstruation, New Research
Guest Post by Kitty Holman Make no mistake, there are some women who absolutely love to shop. And why not? Shopping has long been described as being a therapeutic activity because it has the uncanny ability to lift the spirit. After all, bringing home a new pair of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 24, 2010 | Internet
Here’s a sample of our late October reading: Researchers at University of Calgary discuss why monkeys don’t go through menopause. Tracy Clark-Flory considers the Wall Street Journal‘s report about women who don’t consistently take their birth...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 20, 2010 | Activism, Menstruation
Today is Love Your Body Day, a program instigated by NOW to counter the media-fostered ideal of slender, white, long-haired, able-bodied, perpetually happy femininity. We here at re:Cycling are all about self-love, Health At Every Size, and fat acceptance, but...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 19, 2010 | Anatomy, Media, New Research
This morning, ladymag The Stir posted an article titled, “5 Weird Things Our Menstrual Cycles Make Us Do”. Over the weekend, science site Live Science featured an article about the recent surge in ovulation-related research (with the unfortunate title,...
