by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 8, 2012 | Internet
Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For) tells Jezebel what reaching menopause on one’s 5oth birthday is like: “I feel like every joke about menopause ever.” German manufacturers of thalidolmide, widely prescribed to pregnant women for morning...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 5, 2012 | Birth Control, Coming off the pill, Hormones, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Leslie Carol Botha Women’s Health Freedom Coalition Coordinator, Natural Solutions Foundation I still remember the first Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference I attended in Tucson, AZ in June, 1999. The statement that made the most impact...
by Chris Bobel | Sep 3, 2012 | Activism, Celebrities, History, Language, Literature, Menstruation
In 1978, feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem penned a brilliant satire first appearing in Ms magazine and later in her collected essays Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. In it, she blew the lid off how gender ideology (read: sexism) shapes how we “do”...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 1, 2012 | Internet
Margaret McCartney writes about the mixed messages regarding “The V word in advertising selling genital hygiene products to women” in the British Medical Journal. A new report published in Obstetrics & Gynecology says that compounded bioidentical...
