by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | Mar 10, 2014 | Communication, Media, Menarche, Menstruation
For those living in or around New York City, the New York Public Library currently has an exhibition called “The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter.” As the title suggests, the exhibit looks at popular children’s stories—consisting of The Wizard of Oz and Mary...
by Heather Dillaway | Jul 18, 2013 | Books, Girls, Menstruation
I am doing a last minute switch of topic for my blog post this time. I had another post all planned out but I am on a cross-country trip this week and am open to new ideas. I am in South Dakota today (at Wall Drug of all places). I found myself staring at yet one more...
by David Linton | Jun 18, 2013 | Books, Language, Menstruation
Just out from Temple University Press is a new book edited by Jeffrey Bruen and Daniel Wilson titled Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity. I am honored to have a chapter in it about how menstruation has been socially constructed as a disabling...
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 David Linton | Jan 31, 2012 | Books, Celebrities, Humor, Menstruation, Television
Tina Fey, true to her reputation for being feisty and transgressive, tells two amusing menstrual tales in her recent bestselling book, Bossypants. The first is, appropriately for a “tell all” memoire, about her menarche. The story, familiar to thousands of...