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 1, 2010 | Health Care, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research, Sex
POZ magazine and poz.com claim to be the leading publication and website in the U.S. about HIV/AIDS. The March 2010 issue has a great article by Suzanne Bopp about menstruation, menopause, and HIV. As with medical and cultural knowledge about HIV itself, understanding...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 25, 2010 | Men, Menstruation, New Research
A small study recently published in the European Journal of Pain found that women’s sensitivity to pain does not appear to be increased by the menstrual cycle. The study did not assess perceptions of menstrual pain, but measured pain sensitivity to cold pressor,...
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 16, 2010 | Advertising, Anatomy, Menstruation, Objects
Asics footwear has developed a new running shoe that accommodates changes in women’s arches across the menstrual cycle. According to the Daily Mail, new research shows that changes in levels of estrogen affect flexibility and the height of the foot’s...