by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 10, 2010 | Language, Literature, Men, Menorrhagia, Menstruation, Religion/Spirituality
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Debates about Christianity’s attitudes toward women sometimes focus on Jesus’ relationship with Mary Magdalene and isolated engagements with other unnamed women encountered during his travels. Little...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 9, 2010 | New Research, Newspapers, PMDD, PMS
Guest Post by Amber Steele, University of Cambridge There have been a couple of stories in the press recently touting a study by Joanna Spencer and colleagues suggesting that PMDD may be genetic. I had a cursory look through the paper and read the article. Changes in...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 7, 2010 | Health Care, Menopause, New Research
Guest Post by Jerilynn C. Prior, Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research A hot flush causes failure on a lie detector test! The same galvanic skin response (in simple terms—clammy skin) is positive in both. Why? Because—with every flush—there is massive...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 22, 2010 | Books, Language, Literature, Menstruation
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Dana Medoro, The Bleeding of America: Menstruation as Symbolic Economy in Pynchon, Faulkner and Morrison, Greenwood/Praeger, 2002. Pp. 198. $98. ISBN 0313320594. One of the ways the taboos surrounding...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 10, 2010 | Celebrities, Communication, Internet, Men, Menstruation, Newspapers, Television
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Four years ago I published an article in Sex Roles (March 2006) about the twists and turns of the media coverage of a scandal that came to be known as “Camillagate.” It concerned the publication of a...
