by Chris Bobel | Dec 26, 2011 | Menarche, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research
What happens when get a bunch of interdisciplinary menstrual cycle researchers together and give them each a topic or two and a word count? You get a pithy document called “The Menstrual Cycle: A Feminist Lifespan Perspective” available to anyone who needs to...
by Chris Hitchcock | Dec 20, 2011 | Menarche, Menstruation, New Research
Many girls in Africa have insecure access to food, that is, they worry about getting enough food, and they sometimes eat less than they want, or go without food. There are two theories about how this might affect the onset of menstruation (menarche). One is that the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 8, 2011 | Menstruation
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 4, 2011 | Health Care, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Successful tests on rhesus monkeys are a long way from clinical trials on women, but this is interesting to those of us following the conversations and debates about cycle-stopping contraceptives: new research testing progestin antagonists indicates that the drug can...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 11, 2011 | New Research
A special issue of the scholarly journal Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal has just been published, featuring several pieces about menstruation, media representation, and the ways we talk about it. You can see the table of contents here, as well as...