by David Linton | Aug 15, 2011 | Books, Celebrities, Literature, Menstruation
The ways in which a “menstrual stain” can signify embarrassment, shame, or even some sort of moral or career failure are surely infinite. If not a literal stain even being associated with menstruation in the most benign way can be seen as perilous. ...
by David Linton | Aug 9, 2011 | Humor, Media, Menarche, Television
From time to time menstrual references show up in TV programs, mostly on situation comedies and, unsurprisingly, they are usually played for laughs. The most common inclusions have had to do with menarche with menopause coming in second. First periods have provided...
by Laura Wershler | Aug 2, 2011 | Activism, Advertising, Anatomy, Communication, FemCare, Language, Media
If a product manufacturer or its advertising company, or both, cannot figure out which part of the female body their new line of feminine hygiene products can be used for, then both are in big trouble. There has been much hoopla over the recently launched Summer’s...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 7, 2010
2009 Conference Papers Selected papers from the 2009 meeting in Spokane, Washington, were published in the February, 2011, issue of Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, guest edited by Chris Bobel and Elizabeth Kissling: Menstruation Matters: Introduction to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 21, 2010 | Internet
Are you a menstrual activist? Tell the Lunapads ladies what menstrual activism means to you, and you could win a copy of Chris Bobel’s brilliant new book, New Blood: Third-Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation, or a set of Jen Vaughn’s delightful...
