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Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Pre-Columbian
bowl from Perú
bowl showing
menstruation, c. 200 BCE - 600AD
New Humor
New Words and expressions about menstruation: Germany: Auf
Schmerzmittel sein, Bauchkrämpfe
haben, Blutrache/Vendetta, Blutzoll zahlen,
[die] Damenhygieneartikelindustrie
unterstützen, Fallschirm springen, Fliegen,
Ich habe mein Zeug, Ich habe meine
Tage/Periode/Regel, Lesezeichen basteln,
Zeitung lesen; U.S.A.:
[The] Commies are coming, Happy escapade,
[The] Invasion of the Red Army, Party favors
Hei, [Norwegian for "Hi"]
Here is a new link to add to
your collection:
Walt Disney's educational
animation film " The
Story
of Menstruation" is now
available on youtube.com
[Your MUM had trouble
connecting to the link.]
I discovered this via http://www.cartoonbrew.com/.
While you are there check out the Disney
cartoon "VD attack
plan. [!]"
Also: this year's Biennale in Venice
featured a chandelier
made of tampons by Portuguese
artist Joana Vasconcelos, which to me (five
years younger than the artist and on three
vernissages every week) seems mildly amusing
and rather banal. One of many articles about
this is found here,
but there are plenty more when you Google
around:
Keep up the good work,
Signed: DD, "a reader in
Norway"
Dutch ad for Kotex,
2000
Dutch ad for Libresse
pads, 1998
"Die Menstruation,"
German booklet for girls from o.b. tampons
French
women gain their liberté, then lose it:
Tampax ad, Marie Claire, 1938
Research position
available:
Graduate Student/Post Doc (PhD or MD)
needed for research on Women's Reproductive
Epidemiology to work with Dr Jerilynn C
Prior and the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and
Ovulation Research (CeMCOR) in Vancouver,
BC, Canada, on a recently funded project
related to menstrual cycles and ovulation. Candidates with a medical,
public health or biology background
preferred but all candidates with suitable
skills will be considered.
Funding on this CIHR-supported
project will start in the spring/summer of
2006. At least one year's funding is
guaranteed.
The applicant must be well
trained, committed to women's health
research, able to work with and teach a wide
variety of premenopausal women, to supervise
two research assistants, and to collect,
manage, analyze and present/write about
research results. This study provides the
opportunity to explore many menstrual
cycle-related questions.
Send résumé/CV, cover letter
and writing sample to : [email protected]
with "Graduate
Student/Post Doc needed for research on
Women's Reproductive Epidemiology"
as the subject.
New: Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Letter
to your MUM:
"About washable
pads [see the MUM pages on washable pads]:
there are quite a few moms who have
work-at-home businesses making these things.
I find them to be far superior to Glad Rags.
This page shows several styles:
http://www.diaperware.com/mooncare/mooncare.htm
There are also work-at-home moms that make pad pots. An
example - http://www.primalmommy.com/padpots.htm"
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