by David Linton | Mar 3, 2011 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Language, Literature, Menstruation
In the late 1920s, at the peak of the Flapper Era, a series of Kotex ads made extravagant use of images of attractive young women in couture outfits in sophisticated settings. The most intriguing and subtle ad in the series was published in 1929. It shows two slender...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 10, 2010 | Language, Literature, Men, Menorrhagia, Menstruation, Religion/Spirituality
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Debates about Christianity’s attitudes toward women sometimes focus on Jesus’ relationship with Mary Magdalene and isolated engagements with other unnamed women encountered during his travels. Little...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 22, 2010 | Books, Language, Literature, Menstruation
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Dana Medoro, The Bleeding of America: Menstruation as Symbolic Economy in Pynchon, Faulkner and Morrison, Greenwood/Praeger, 2002. Pp. 198. $98. ISBN 0313320594. One of the ways the taboos surrounding...