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 Giovanna Chesler | Aug 2, 2010 | Film, Independent Film, Menstruation, Religion/Spirituality
Red Moon: Menstruation, Culture and the Politics of Gender may have crossed your path as The Moon Inside You (its original title prior to 2010 its current distribution through Media Education Foundation). It is a film that has enjoyed wide release, with exhibition on...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 9, 2009 | Birth Control, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Holly Grigg-Spall, freelance writer (“Sweetening the Pill“) The popularity of the birth control pill is an essential element of our cultural attitude towards menstruation, and women’s bodies as a whole. After taking the pill for ten...
by Laura Wershler | May 8, 2015 | Activism, Birth Control, Menstruation
Four takes on Fertility Control at the 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research at The Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights, June 4-6, 2015, Suffolk University, Boston Not A “Real” Period: Redefining Menstruation and Reconfiguring...
by Laura Wershler | Feb 5, 2014 | Birth Control, Books, Celebrities, Health Care, Hormones, Menstruation, Ovulation
I was curious. If Cameron Diaz’s purpose in writing The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body was empowerment, helping women to understand how their bodies work, would she include information about the...