Definitions That Fall Short
The definitive women's health sourcebook, Our Bodies, Ourselves written by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective is undergoing revisions for its 40th anniversary (and 9th) edition. Lots of folks in the women's health community are involved in the revision and...
Mother Nature Doesn’t Menstruate – At Least She Doesn’t Say So
This advert for Tampax appears in the February 2010 issue of Marie Claire, and probably other ladymags as well. It shows tennis star Serena Williams posing in a victory stance with clenched fist in the foreground, while security guards cart off Mother Nature, who is...
SHE featured in Marie Claire
We've mentioned Elizabeth Scharpf's SHE (Sustainable Health Enterprises) at re:Cycling before. In 2009, Scharpf won the inaugural Harvard Business School Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship for her project helping local women in developing countries “jump-start their...
‘Should You Get Rid of Your Period’ Debated at MSN
SMCR and re:Cycling's own Chris Hitchcock is featured in a menstrual suppression for-and-against article at MSN today. Chris explains why using hormonal contraceptives to stop periods is generally bad idea, except in very limited medical circumstances. Leslie Miller,...
The Queen Mother of Awkward Ad Briefs: Marketing Feminine Hygiene Products
I love Terry O'Reilly's take on advertising and enjoy listening to his program The Age of Persusion on CBC radio whenever I get the opportunity, usually catching it by chance as I did this past Monday morning. This episode, Marketing the Unpleasant, tackles the...
What are you doing this month for your cervix?
Some ecards, creators of absolutely genius electronic postcards, have introduced a special series of HPV WTF cards to commemorate National Cervical Health Month. (I'll bet you didn't even know it was National Cervical Health Month!) Send them to people you care about...
