by David Linton | Dec 28, 2015 | Media, Music, PMS
Since re:Cycling launched in 2009, we’ve posted often about how film, TV, advertising and literary productions reference menstruation. However, one popular mass medium seems to have generally avoided addressing the cultural and personal presence of the menstrual...
by David Linton | Dec 26, 2015 | Books, Humor, Media, Menopause
The holiday season brings plenty of opportunities to celebrate as well as to reflect on our lives, our society, and the state of the world. So, here’s an opportunity to reflect on the state of the menstrual ecology, a look back at a post from three years ago,...
by David Linton | Dec 3, 2015 | Media, Television
Perhaps one of the most useful barometers of the social status of the menstrual cycle is the frequency and nature of its representation in public media. In the 1950s the three major TV network forbade the airing of ads for menstrual products, or “catamenial devices,”...
by Chris Bobel | Nov 16, 2015 | Activism, Internet, Menstruation
This post was first published under the title The Year the Period Went Public on November 12, 2015 on Gender & Society, a publication of Sociologists for Women in Society. It is crossposted here with permission. By Chris Bobel In this month’s issue, Cosmopolitan...
by David Linton | Oct 9, 2015 | Menstruation
Although the social status and understanding of the menstrual cycle has (at least among industrialized and relatively better educated societies) improved slowly but perceptibly over the past 50 years, there are still many ways that menstruation is still stigmatized...
