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).
Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities
Benjamin Dalton and Rebecca Rosenberg give an overview of the programme for the forthcoming conference ‘Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities’, 29-31 July 2021.
From Babe to Baba: female ageing in Dubravka Ugresić’s Baba Yaga Laid an Egg.
Roxana Elena Doncu explores female ageing in Dubravka Ugresić’s novel Baba Yaga Laid an Egg. Part of the series ‘Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities’, guest edited for The Polyphony by Rebecca Rosenberg and Benjamin Dalton.
Literature as activism in the fight to eradicate FGM
Maria Tomlinson explores the portrayal of FGM in Adelle Barry’s short story “En attendant minuit”. Part of the series ‘Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities’, guest edited for The Polyphony by Rebecca Rosenberg and Benjamin Dalton.
Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities
Rebecca Rosenberg and Benjamin Dalton introduce a ten-day takeover of The Polyphony by Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities.
Representing Women’s Health 2020: A Conference Review
Beata Gubacsi reflects on the Representing Women’s Health conference, featuring topics from reproductive health and maternal loss to endometriosis and hysteria, providing insight into new research to locate and deconstruct stigma and bias in
‘Addicted. Pregnant. Poor’ reviewed by Dr Kwanwook Kim
Addicted. Pregnant. Poor by Kelly Ray Knight (Duke University Press, 2015). This deeply engaging and long standing ethnography conducted from 2007 to 2011 fully discloses the sufferings of women living in daily rent hotels
‘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