by Laura Wershler | Mar 6, 2013 | Birth Control, Fertility, Hormones, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical, Reproduction
I’ve been wading through State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals – 2012. The 289-page report was prepared by a group of experts for the United Nations Environmental Programme and World Health Organization. It is dense and complex, but what...
by Paula Derry | Mar 4, 2013 | Menopause, Pharmaceutical, Sex
On February 26, 2013, the Food and Drug Administration issued a news release saying that it had approved a medication called Osphena to treat a problem called postmenopausal dyspareunia (pain during sexual intercourse associated with changes in the vagina after...
by Heather Dillaway | Feb 28, 2013 | Menopause, Perimenopause
In response to my last blog entry about Helena Bonham Carter, Paula Derry commented that we treat menopause as a “junk category,” tossing in any symptom we can’t explain or don’t want to attribute to anything else. So true. In fact, Anne Fausto-Sterling said this long...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 23, 2013 | Internet
Forty years ago, Gloria Steinem wondered what the world would be like if men could menstruate. Dana Leipold wonders what it would be like if men had killer menstrual cramps. Amelia McDonell-Parry of The Frisky shares 15 “memorable menstruation scenes” from...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 20, 2013 | Activism, Language, Menstruation
Feminists of a certain age may recall debates about changing sexist language, and the ways feminists were once mocked for insisting on replacing sex-specific terms such as policeman with police officer, fireman with firefighter, stewardess with flight attendant and...
