by Paula Derry | Mar 5, 2012 | Hormones
All too often, hormones are portrayed in the media, and even in professional articles, as strangers inside our bodies that control us. Sometimes hormones are personified as bosses that order our bodies around. Sometimes they are portrayed as akin in function to...
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...