Menstrual Bonding, Birth Control Brouhaha, and other Weekend Links
Research by SMCR members Tomi-Ann Roberts and Nicki Dunnavan garnered a lot of attention this week. Stories showed up at Live Science – Why Why Women Should Bring Their Periods 'Out of the Closet, popular ladyblog Jezebel - Your Period Is a Time for Deep Lady-Bonding,...
Coming Off The Pill: A Mind Map Guide
Everybody can use a good map to help them get to where they're going. Why not women heading to the land of non-hormonal contraception? In my post on January 11, 2012 I asked if coming off the pill was a growing trend. I proposed to write a series of posts about the...
What is a hormone?
All too often, hormones are portrayed in the media, and even in professional articles, as strangers inside our bodies that control us. Sometimes hormones are personified as bosses that order our bodies around. Sometimes they are portrayed as akin in function to...
Ovarian Stem Cells, Men Who Trust Women, and Other Weekend Links
The "father of American gynecology" was an abusive one: In her Sunday Footnote last week, Melissa Harris-Perry talked about women's bodies, and how Black women's bodies were used against their will by James Marion Sims as he conducted experiments without anesthesia on...
Talking Makes Menopause Better — Anyone Surprised?
The results are in: if you talk to your friends more during menopause, then your menopausal symptoms will bother you less. A study reported in The Telegraph last week suggests that talking either lessens women’s symptoms or helps them cope better (or both). In one...
Misogyny, Medicine, or Menstrual Madness?
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 Menstruation? and...
