What did women do
about menstruation
in the past?
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Woman's
Physical Freedom,
Book (complete) by Clelia Duel
Mosher, M.D.
(The Womans Press, New York
City, U.S.A., 1923, 87 pages)
What an amazing
story - the
story of this physician
and early sex
researcher!
But she ended her life
writing
letters to a "friend"
who didn't exist,
an expression of her
intense loneliness. She
had no actual friends to
open her heart to.
You have to read elsewhere
about the life of this
Stanford and Johns
Hopkins medical school
graduate who paid a
price for being a
woman in a man's
medical world.
Women still pay that
price.
It
works both ways.
I've - the I is Harry
Finley - paid a price
among many women (and
men!) for having had
the temerity to start
a museum of
menstruation. A
woman physician, an
officer of the Society
of Menstrual Cycle
Research, responded to
my telling her that I
was creating such a
museum by looking down
and saying in a quiet
voice, "You're
a brave man."
She didn't look happy.
I was not encouraged.
Read an article about
her (rediscovered) sex
survey
of Victorian women,
which revealed that the
interviewed ladies
mostly enjoyed sex. I
wonder if any needed
help from Dr.
Pierce's
machines.
In the meantime, read
her book that shattered
many myths about women's
problems - and her
proffered solutions.
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Below:
The cover of the black
& white hardbound
book measures 5 1/4 x 7
1/2" (13.3 x 19.1 cm).
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Below:
Title page.
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