What’s In A Name?
This month an important Sage research journal, Menopause International, “the flagship journal of the British Menopause Society (BMS),” changes its name to Post Reproductive Health. The Co-Editors of this journal are quoted in talking about this name change: "Women's...
An Uncharted Territory: Marriage Manual and Menstrual Sex
A previous post, The Subject of Sneers or Jests: Menstrual Education in the Service of Racism, examined the confluence of eugenic notions that conflated the effects of environmental factors like clothing, alcohol, and masturbation with heredity and health as expressed...
Happy Birthday, Gloria Steinem!
The SMCR joins thousands of other groups and individuals around the world in celebrating Gloria Steinem's 80th birthday. Her contribution to the full array of feminist causes is immeasurable, not the least of which is her insightful essay on the social construction of...
The C word, Non-hormonal Contraceptives, and More Weekend Links
httpv://youtu.be/Er0dxHCx0Z4 Cunt has been in Oxford English Dictionary since 1972, and feminist debates about whether the word can be reclaimed go back at least as far. Many re:Cycling readers know this monologue (video at right) from Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues....
The Subject of Sneers or Jests: Menstrual Education in the Service of Racism
Sometimes, when it seems that progress toward the elimination of harmful menstrual stereotypes, myths, and misinformation is slow or even stalled, it is bracing to take a look back at the kinds of educational materials, marriage manuals, and sources of advice that...
Are There Limits to Empathy?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnb-rdGbm6s Readers—I need your help! Next month, I will participate in a friendly debate at the Museum of Modern Art about Sputniko!’s provocative piece “Menstrutation Machine.” We’ve written about Menstruation Machine on re:Cycling...
