by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 17, 2012 | Internet
The National Institutes of Health provides a tutorial about what to expect at your first mammogram. Holly Grigg-Spall and Laura Wershler have developed a comprehensive resource guide for women who are ready to give up the pill for good. Virginia Republican caucus...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 3, 2012 | Internet
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 29, 2012 | Film, Independent Film, Literature, Menstruation
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...
by David Linton | Feb 27, 2012 | Literature, Men, Menstruation
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 25, 2012 | Internet
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 22, 2012 | Birth Control, magazines, Politics
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...
