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Capitalizing
on the Curse: The Business of
Menstruation,
American book soon to appear.
Fellow member of The Society for Menstrual
Cycle Research (Web
site) Dr. Elizabeth Kissling,
professor of journalism at Eastern
Washington University, writes about (among
other things) how shame is used to sell
menstrual products, a multi-billion dollar
industry - and she assesses this site, the
Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health.
Your guess is as good as mine about what she
thinks of it! It will appear in a few weeks.
Download a chapter and read more about it here.
"Quando
le donne hanno la luna": Italian anthropological
book about menstruation just appeared
(anybody want to translate the message below for you
readers and me?
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I just received this
e-mail:
Hallo, I'm Chiara Codeluppi,
from the press office of an
italian publisher, Baldini
Castoldi Dalai editore. I write
you to point out our new book,
which is a very accurate
anthropological study of
menstruation.
Unfortunately my documentation
[at right] is in Italian, but I
hope it will serve.
Best wishes,
Chiara Codeluppi
http://www.bcdeditore.it/
Ufficio Stampa Baldini
castoldi Dalai editore
Tel: 0039 02 58450214
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Gianfranca Ranisio
Quando le donne hanno la luna
Collana: Le mele
Data di pubblicazione: 7
febbraio
Pagine: 216
Prezzo: 16 euro
[according to the Web
site it looks as if it's
been reduced to 12.80 euro]
Laddove il corpo femminile ha
sempre seguito i suoi ritmi, in
accordo con la natura, la
società ha imposto il suo
controllo. Perché? Perché la
cultura odierna, e soprattutto
la medicina, tende a regolare
ciò che per la donna è solo una
richiesta di riflettere, di
sentire il proprio corpo e le
proprie sensazioni?
IL LIBRO: La necessità di
regolare l'attività riproduttiva
ha costantemente sottoposto il
corpo femminile, in ogni cultura,
al controllo sociale, attraverso
la magia, la religione e in epoca
più moderna attraverso la
medicina. Ma può questa
prospettiva estendersi a tutte le
tappe fisiologiche della vita
della donna? Ciò che accade in
modo naturale, come la pubertà, il
ciclo mestruale, la gravidanza e
la menopausa, è investito di
elaborazioni culturali, e non
solo, ciò che in passato era
lasciato all'autonomia femminile,
avvolto da un alone di mistero,
ciò che rivendicava una percezione
del tempo diversa, con i suoi
momenti permessi e vietati, oggi
non esiste più. Ad annullare
sofferenze e disagi intervengono i
farmaci, mentre queste fasi, da
sempre legate a una rivendicazione
di tempo per sé e a una
valorizzazione della propria
differenza sessuale, sono viste
come una malattia da curare,
poiché opposte al ritmo frenetico
del quotidiano e ai modelli che la
società ci chiede di perseguire.
Supportata da
racconti-testimonianza sul tema,
l'autrice intreccia il senso
interiore delle tappe biologiche
del corpo femminile a quello
socio-culturale, rivelando il
rapporto complesso tra
l'esperienza vissuta, le attività
sociali e le storie che le
descrivono.
L'AUTRICE: Gianfranca
Ranisio è docente di Antropologia
Culturale presso l'Università di
Napoli &laqno;Federico II». Si
occupa di pratiche rituali e forme
di devozione popolare, soprattutto
nell'Italia meridionale. Ha
studiato la scena antropologica
del parto facendone emergere
pratiche e codici culturali. I
suoi lavori si collocano tra
l'antropologia culturale, la
storia delle religioni, l'analisi
delle tradizioni folkloriche e i gender
studies. Tra i suoi libri: Il
Paradiso folklorico. San
Giuseppe nella tradizione
popolare meridionale (1981);
Il lupo mannaro. L'uomo, il
lupo, il racconto (1984); Venire
al mondo. Credenze, pratiche e
rituali del parto (1996) e La
città e il suo racconto
(2003).
Per ulteriori informazioni:
Chiara Codeluppi, Ufficio Stampa
BCDeditore, tel: 02/58450265
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E-mail about Lunette, a menstrual cup from Finland
(see a short history
of cups): "Hello, Mr. Finley. I just today
became aware of the Wikipedia Web page on
menstrual cups (with which I have been
familiar for many years) and of your Web
page. On the Wikipedia page there is mention
of a cup which doesn't seem to have made it
to your site yet. It is the Lunette cup
which is manufactured in Finland. Visit one
of the Web site's Internet addresses
[or http://www.lunette.fi/english_index.html].
I
thought you may be interested. ****, M.D.,
F.A.C.O.G."
Visit a forum on breast
surgery
Hi Harry,
I have found your site to be
extremly educational and I have found things
I had never known about, and you have
cleared up a lot of misconceptions.
Here is my question for you:
I work with a breast consultant company
which has a forum on breast surgery, the
good and the bad, real women asking real
questions. I would really appreciate if you
could list us on your page
The site of the forum is
A guy asks, "Do women cycle
together?"
"Hello, my name is **** and I am engaged in
a heated argument with a friend. I claim,
growing up with four women in the same
household, that women who live in close
contact with one another eventually
synchronize their menstrual cycles. He does
not agree, having not grown up with any
women, claiming that this is the most
ridiculous thing he has ever heard. Please
enlighten us: who is correct? Thank you for
your time. Sincerely, ****" [You are! At
least some of the time. Read a
history-making study
showing this in a dormitory at Wellesley
College.]
Discovery!
Did Kotex beat
Tampax in making the first commercial tampon?
How Modess and the CLASSIEST sanitary
napkin ads began
Too much hair: Hypertrichosis,
Hirsutism and Androgenic Manifestations in
Women by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux
Religión y
menstruación (Religion and
Menstruation page in Spanish; English version)
DON'T DOUCHE WITH
LYSOL!
(Explanation from "Facts and Frauds in
Woman's Hygiene," 1936)
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Maclean's
magazine (Canada) had cover article on new stop-menstruation
pill
Historic
"Necessary Items" replicas for sale
Hi!
I was tipped off by a
friend about how interesting your site is
after
I told her about the
existence of this product at my biological
mother (Susan)'s historic clothing online
store. You've got a pretty cool thing
going on at MUM. Since I didn't see
anything exactly like this on your site, I
thought I'd share what it is that Susan
makes.
Here's the product
description:
A Woman's Kit of Necessary
Items. c. 1700 1919. $45.00 Contains a
dozen absorbent, layered cotton clouts and
four linen wraps packaged together neatly
in a drawstring bag that may be discreetly
carried to events for truly feminine
"experimental archaeology". From original
sources, including oral histories and
careful study of an original linen
clout-wrap found in the wall of a house
c.1830 that was being demolished in
Mecklenburg County, NC.
Comes with complete
instructions for wear and laundering. A
safe and practical, "period-correct"
alternative.
You can also e-mail her, if
you want - the e-mail address is provided
at the site. I'm sure it wouldn't be a
problem for her to answer any questions
you might have if you want to include a
note about this find on your site, or if
you're just curious for more information.
From what she's told me
about the original clout, it was found in
the wall of a house as it was being
demolished. The house was built around
1830. The clout was in the wall in such a
way that it only could have been put there
during the house's construction...
presumably for a purpose, but what that
purpose might have been I don't know.
Again, you've got a really
cool thing going at your site and I'll be
sure to pass the word about its existence.
More people should know about MUM
A guy asks, Do women cycle
together?
Hello, my name is **** and
I am engaged in a heated argument with a
friend. I claim, growing up with four
women in the same household, that women
who live in close contact with one another
eventually synchronize their menstrual
cycles. He does not agree, having not
grown up with any women, claiming that
this is the most ridiculous thing he has
ever heard. Please enlighten us; who is
correct? Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
****
[You are! At least some of
the time. Read a history-making study showing
this in a dormitory at Wellesley College.]
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