Margaret Atwood’s Menstrual Dystopia
The menstrual cycle has been of interest to novelists from time to time and some of their work has received critical attention by scholars, most notably in Dana Medoro's Bleeding in America, a seminal study that assesses the menstrual elements in the novels of...
History of Pill Packaging, Outrageous Remarks about Birth Control, and Other Weekend Links
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 American...
Sex Ed for Teens: Where’s the Mucus?
Guest Post by Lisa Leger Teen girls are getting pregnant, in part, because they don’t understand their menstrual cycles. It’s time for sexual health educators to step up and teach girls the primary sign of fertility. A recent report by The Centers for Disease Control...
What’s missing from Mother Jones’ birth control calculator?
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 estimates your lifetime...
All Wrapped Up
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...
Abortion, Birth Control, and U.S. Politicians — and Weekend Links
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 op-ed...
