by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 29, 2009 | Girls, Internet, Menarche, New Research
Janice Horowitiz’ “Dueling Docs” feature at Huffington Post today is about the issue of girls reaching puberty at increasingly earlier ages than previous generations. Both Dr. Alisan Goldfarb and Dr. Stephen Safe talk about endocrine disruptors such...
by Laura Wershler | Dec 10, 2009 | Birth Control, Health Care, Media, Menarche, Menopause, Menstruation, Newspapers, Ovulation
Can having too many menstrual cycles give you breast cancer? That’s what one might conclude from two unrelated articles that appeared in national newspapers this week. First was Nicholas D. Kristof’s Op-Ed in the New York Times. Kristof had recently...
by Giovanna Chesler | Oct 14, 2009 | Film, Girls, Independent Film, Menarche
The third film in the Blood on Screen series is Camille Holder Brown’s award winning A Period Piece (2005). I know of at least two other films and one sculptural artwork that use this title. Yet despite the ubiquitous pun, each work has an equally clever take on the...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 17, 2009 | FemCare, Girls, Menarche
Nearly 20(!) years ago, I conducted research for my doctoral dissertation about how and what girls learn about menstruation. I researched the literature and interviewed girls ages 11-16 about what kinds of information about menstruation they received and the sources...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 3, 2009 | FemCare, Media
Dot Girl™ First Period Products, a retailer of first menstrual period kits for pre-teen girls, announced today that they are partnering with Best Bones Forever!, a national campaign led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s...