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New 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 : cemcor@interchange.ubc.ca
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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