Tag: menstrual taboos

• An Unfamiliar Worry (for some)

  I don’t know how the world used to manage with just men at the helm. There are so many things –obvious things- that simply pass by us uncharted. I don’t think its intentional; it’s more likely that those things just do not affect us in the same way. They have different consequences; we assign them…

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  December 16, 2015

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  Amy Peake, BBC news, cultural sensitivity, culture, food and shelter, gender boundaries, Iago, incontinence pads, Lenin, menses, menstrual pads, menstrual stigma, menstrual taboos, Othello, Refugee camps, refugees, resettlement of refugees, sanitary pads, Shakespeare, women’s needs, Zaatari camp in Jordan

• Menstruation and Sports

  Okay, time to cross the line again. I’ve written about this before (see Menstrual Taboos  https://musingsonwomenshealth.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/menstrual-taboos/ ) but the issue keeps popping up. In the recent 2015 Australian Open, the top ranking female tennis player in Britain, Heather Watson, suffered a first round defeat. In the subsequent interview, as she was being grilled about what might…

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  April 1, 2015

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  Australian Open, Girl things, Heather Watson, Karen Houppert, menstrual cycles, menstrual physiology, menstrual taboos, menstruation, menstruation and sports, Plato’s allegory of the Cave