by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 15, 2010 | Internet
re:Cycling is one year old today! We began with a few warm-up posts in the summer of 2009, but we launched officially (and sent out a press release to damn near everyone in the feminist blogosphere) on September 15. In that year, we’ve had more than 300 posts...
by Heather Dillaway | Sep 13, 2010 | Activism, Advertising, Menopause
September is Menopause Awareness Month. If you do a web search on “Menopause Awareness Month,” the first things that pop up are about hormone therapies, pain, cramps, eye floaters, and other terrible symptoms that should probably be commemorated this month….or maybe...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 11, 2010 | Internet
What we’re reading this week – Fumbling in the Feminine Aisle: What to look for on menstrual product packaging to find the closest approximation to your U.S. brand when you’re in China. Gayle Sulik’s new book, Pink Ribbon Blues, is available....
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 10, 2010 | Dysmenorrhea, Girls, Menstruation, New Research
A new study published in the Journal of Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology reports on a study of how dysmenorrhea affects girls’ relationships with families and friends and school performance for girls in Turkey. Previously, we reported on research documenting that...
by Chris Hitchcock | Sep 8, 2010 | Menstruation
An open-access article published in PLOS Medicine yesterday, Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, associate professor in the Department of Physiology at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington DC, presents an article describing the ways in which the pharmaceutical...
