by Editor | Sep 21, 2015 | Girls, Menarche, Motherhood
Guest Post by Sheryl Mendlinger, PhD The impetus of my research on menstruation started many years ago when my daughter Yael was in her teens in the 1990s, and came home from school and told me that her friends said, “If you use tampons you could lose your virginity.”...
by Editor | Sep 16, 2015 | Menarche, Motherhood
From the book Schlopping: Developing Relationships, Self-Image & Memories comes another unique mother-daughter menarche story as follow up to Monday’s post by A daughter raised with body literacy. Though completely different in many respects, both...
by Lisa Leger | Sep 14, 2015 | Menarche, Motherhood
Adapted from A Baby Born to Body Literacy, Femme Fertile, Winter, 2006, p. 6 My daughter was born at home with midwives. Not because I was brave, but because I was chicken. Working in health care, I had heard too many maternity-ward horror stories. My studies in...
by Chris Bobel | Jun 16, 2014 | Activism, Anatomy, Birth Control, Books, Celebrities, Coming off the pill, Communication, DIY, FemCare, Fertility, Girls, Health Care, History, Hormones, Humor, Language, Law/Legal, Media, Men, Menarche, Menopause, Menstruation, Meta, Motherhood, New Research, Objects, Ovulation, Pharmaceutical, Philosophy, PMS, Politics, Pregnancy, Religion/Spirituality, Reproduction, Sex, Sports, Theater, Toxic Shock Syndrome
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by Heather Dillaway | Apr 24, 2014 | Communication, Disposable menstrual products, Humor, magazines, Menstruation, Motherhood
I was flipping through the May 2014 issue of Working Mother Magazine the other day and landed upon a small article about a working mother’s recent “faux pas”: on a “crazed morning” she accidentally packed her bag of tampons in her 7-year-old son’s camp bag and took...
by Laura Wershler | Apr 2, 2014 | Activism, Menstruation, Motherhood
Guest Post by Lisa Leger Posing while pregnant in my pro-choice T-shirt in 1993 was a political statement, one I made with a huge sassy grin on my face. When I recreated the pose recently on my daughter’s 21st birthday, I found it easy to reprise the grin. First take,...
