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 Heather Dillaway | Mar 1, 2012 | Communication, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
The results are in: if you talk to your friends more during menopause, then your menopausal symptoms will bother you less. A study reported in The Telegraph last week suggests that talking either lessens women’s symptoms or helps them cope better (or both). In one...
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 Laura Wershler | Feb 24, 2012 | Activism, Birth Control, Girls, Menstruation, Ovulation, Reproduction, Sex
Guest Post by Lisa Leger Teen girls are getting pregnant, in part, because they don’t understand their menstrual cycles. It’s time for sexual health educators to step up and teach girls the primary sign of fertility. A recent report by The Centers for Disease Control...
