by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 29, 2012 | Film, Independent Film, Literature, Menstruation
Guest Post by Lydia Aponte — Marymount Manhattan College In Professor David Linton’s Social Construction and Images of Menstruation course, our class watched two documentaries involving menstruation and menstrual suppression. Both Period: The End of...
by David Linton | Feb 27, 2012 | Literature, Men, Menstruation
The menstrual cycle has been of interest to novelists from time to time and some of their work has received critical attention by scholars, most notably in Dana Medoro’s Bleeding in America, a seminal study that assesses the menstrual elements in the novels of...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 25, 2012 | Books, Celebrities, Literature, Menstruation
Guest Post by Jaime Hough Tyra Banks wrote a young adult fantsy novel. And it’s a NYT bestseller. The book, titled Modelland, is about the journey of one awkward-looking girl who is whisked away to a magical boarding school which trains girls to become...
by David Linton | Sep 13, 2011 | Literature, Men, Menstruation
Speculation about the private lives of historic figures is always a dicey thing. The task is made more difficult depending on how long ago the individual lived, how well known they were in the first place, whether they or their acquaintances wrote about them, whether...
by David Linton | Sep 1, 2011 | Film, Independent Film, Literature, Men, Menorrhagia, Menstruation, Sex
The taboos against menstrual sex are ancient and deep-seated. Despite the well established fact that sexual intercourse during the period is not medically counter-indicated nor somehow debilitating to women and, furthermore, that some women find the experience more...
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. ...
