by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 10, 2010 | Celebrities, Communication, Internet, Men, Menstruation, Newspapers, Television
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Four years ago I published an article in Sex Roles (March 2006) about the twists and turns of the media coverage of a scandal that came to be known as “Camillagate.” It concerned the publication of a...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 8, 2010 | Books, Communication, Girls, Menstruation, New Research
If I correctly understand the terms of SHM’s copyright agreement with Oxford University Press, I am permitted to publish this unedited version of my review as a “pre-print” article. The final version will be available only from Social History of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 4, 2010 | Menstruation, New Research
Exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants is widespread, with 97% of Americans having detectable levels. Yet there have been no published studies of their effects on human fertility – until now. A study to be published in the January 26...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 3, 2010 | Activism, FemCare, Humor, Independent Film, Internet, Men, Menstruation
We’ve had a couple of productive discussions recently here at re:Cycling about men and menstrual humor, so it seems a good time to introduce Vinnie D’Angelo, creator of Vinnie’s Tampon Case. Therese Shecter has graciously shared this clip from her...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 29, 2010 | Birth Control, Health Care, Menopause, Menstruation, Music, PMS
That’s the report from this arts blogger at the New York Times. Yesterday, doctors from the Methodist Center for Performing Arts Medicine of the Methodist Hospital in Houston held a daylong symposium on the management of medical problems among musicians...
by Chris Bobel | Jan 28, 2010 | Humor, Internet, Men, Menstruation, Television
All this iPad humor has got us thinking about menstrual humor more generally–what’s funny (to some) what’s not (to others), why and why not. In the end, anything-menstruation is almost always met with either 1) a shudder and a swift topic shift OR 2)...
