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Huff Post Women February 4, 2012 Yashar Ali Writer at The Current Conscience Earlier this year, I was watching a repeat episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” The guest on this particular episode was Dr. Oz, who was tasked with answering a series of health questions, many of which were related to women’s reproductive Continue Reading …
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research re: Cycling January 19th, 2012 by Alexandra Jacoby I read a blog post about a paper (that I have not read). The post is “Why do women menstruate?“ by PZ Myers, a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris, blogging at Pharyngula. The paper is “The evolution of menstruation: A Continue Reading …
The onset of menstruation is called menarche. There are a variety of intervals between periods. That 28-day cycle you have heard about is really a myth because few woman have a perfectly regular cycle. The interval between periods may change many times during a woman’s life-time. There are many circumstances that may affect the menstrual Continue Reading …
The Spoof
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
You’ll be the goose who laid the golden egg with Scunthorpe Industrial Chemicals’ duck hormone treatment
Ladies, do you suffer from painful periods? Is your monthly flow a bit of a handful?
Then why not try Scunthorpe Industrial Chemicals’ new duck hormone treatment.
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
re:cycling
September 8th, 2011 by Elizabeth Kissling
Guest Post by Harriet Hall, M.D.
When women live together, do their menstrual cycles tend to synchronize? It’s been a long time since I first heard that claim. I didn’t believe it, for a number of reasons. I had never observed it myself, I saw no plausible mechanism to explain how it could happen, I thought the statistics to prove it would be problematic and complicated, and I suspected that confirmation bias and selective memory might have persuaded people that a spurious correlation existed. How often do women say “Oh, look! We’re having our periods at the same time”? How often do they say “Oh, look! We’re having our periods at different times”? Now that many years have passed since my first encounter, I thought it would be fun to revisit the claim and see whether science has supported it or rejected it.
London Evening Standard
Liz Hoggard
26 Aug 2011
In the new Inbetweeners Movie, there is a jaw-dropping moment when the boys don pink “Pussay Patrol” T-shirts – and head off to “shoot clunge in a barrel”.
Clunge (a slang word for female genitalia) is the new C-word. There are whole Facebook pages devoted to its etymology. You can buy T-shirts, mugs and mouse mats emblazoned with the word, which has rapidly become a cult term among Inbetweeners devotees.
Bitch Media
Social Commentary post by Holly Grigg-Spall,
March 12, 2010
University of Massachusetts professor Chris Bobel is the author of the soon to be released book New Blood: Third-Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation. In this two-part interview she unpacks periods and the activism, advertising and controversy that makes them so very personal and so very political.
How did you come to see menstruation as more than a personal matter?
A slogan menstrual activists use is ‘We’re Making Bleedin’ Everyone’s Issue.’ As women, we are expected to keep our periods hidden and silenced. We internalize this attitude, and police each other: Women learn to hate their bodies, seeing them through racism, ageism and sexism as problems to be fixed through constant ‘improvements’ – that too big nose, too-dark skin, too-narrow eyes, tiny breasts, fat butt. And now we can ‘improve’ the body even more – we can eliminate menstruation altogether with pills such as Lybrel and Seasonique.
08.15.11 Author Rachel Lehmann- Haupt will join me to discuss her book ‘In Her Own Sweet Time – Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and Motherhood’ on Holy Hormones Honey Radio on KRFC FM on Monday August 15.
Calorie Lab
August 12, 2011
A study conducted by the University of Michigan School of Public Health found that Colombian girls 5 to 12 years old with low vitamin D levels doubled their chance of having their first period, called menarche, during the 30 month follow up. Fifty-seven percent of deficient girls reached menarche around 11.8 years compared to 12.6 years in the sufficient group.
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