From Menstruation to the Menopause: Book Review
Jemma Walton reviews From Menstruation to the Menopause: The Female Fertility Cycle in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French, by Maria Kathryn Tomlinson (Liverpool University Press, 2021).
Menstruation in the Museum
Rebecca Raven discusses how museums are making menstruation more visible, through both collections and activism
Research as Impact: Talking with Teenagers about Menstruation
Maria Tomlinson reflects on menstrual activism, research as impact and surprising conversations in focus groups with teenagers
Materiality, monsters and menstruation: introducing Bettina Bildhauer
Professor Bettina Bildhauer’s research addresses the limits of ‘the human’ by focusing on blood, materiality, monsters, and menstruation in the Global Middle Ages. The Polyphony interviewed Bildhauer in advance of her keynote at the Northern Network for Medical Humanities 4th Annual Congress in April 2021.
Introducing: the Menstruation Research Network
Members of the UK Menstruation Research Network reflect on the inaugural workshop, Critical Perspectives on Menstruation at the University of St Andrews, 31 May 2019 Suppressed grins, groans, giggles, downward glances, enthusiastic personal stories,
‘Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil’ reviewed by Ángela Lavilla Cañedo
Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil by Emilia Sanabria (Duke University Press, 2016). Emilia Sanabria’s Plastic Bodies is a captivating book and a much needed study on perceptions on menstruation and