by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 21, 2013 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, magazines
It’s Throwback Thursday on social media, and we’re joining in with this ad for Pursettes tampons that ran in Cosmpolitan (U.S.) magazine in 1966. Nearly 50 years on, little has changed in femcare marketing: Look at the familiar themes of medicalization of...
by Holly Grigg-Spall | Nov 19, 2013 | Activism, Birth Control, Books, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Humor, magazines, Media, Menstruation, Newspapers, Ovulation, Pharmaceutical, Reusable menstrual products
Recently I was fortunate enough to be asked to lend an excerpt of my recently released book to the UK Sunday Times Style magazine. The mostly fashion-centric Style magazine is not really known for its edginess or risk-taking (except perhaps in the realm of shoe and...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 17, 2013 | Internet
Hello, Decembeaver! While men stop shaving for November, women can stop shaving for December. This video was made last year as a satire, to promote Movember awareness. Because no one REALLY wants the ladies to put down the razor, amirite? Enjoy the video for what it...
by Laura Wershler | Nov 13, 2013 | Activism, Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Hormones, Menstruation, Radio
Questioning and quitting the pill are current hot topics, fueled in no small part by Holly Grigg-Spall’s recently released Sweetening the Pill Or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control. Her book has drawn ample backlash, brilliantly addressed by re:Cycling...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 9, 2013 | Internet
. If you’re in New York, or can be there November 17, don’t miss the premiere of Therese Shechter’s How to Lose Your Virginity, a fresh, funny, and long-overdue exploration of the myths and misogyny surrounding the “precious gift” of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 2, 2013 | Internet
Not *another* article about whether or not it’s feminist to shave one’s pubic hair! This one from xoJane is here because when the commenters turn, as commenters on such articles always do, to scolding the author about how one does not shave one’s...
