Chris Bobel is a professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. I’m a huge fan (as I am of everybody on this list!). Bobel has written many books about periods and has long had a really interesting scholarly approach to them. In this particular book, she does what she calls an invested critique of the menstrual hygiene management movement. In particular, the international movement where it’s mostly white Westerners, white women, going into other countries with their imperial feminist thoughts and saying, ‘We know what’s best for you. It’s more period products or more attention to sanitation conditions (or whatever).’ It took a significant amount of time between moms noticing that if they had rubella while they were pregnant their child might be born blind or die, for people to pay attention. They said it enough times to enough people. The first person who really believed them seems to be a doctor in Australia, Norman Gregg.

This book should be given to every woman who has menstruation in the whole world! She tells her own story of her first period, because the goal of this book is to make menstruation less painful. Nadya crushes it. She also wants to make sure that menstruation doesn't have a gender. Let's say people who menstruate, not women. There are only menstrual products, not "feminine hygiene products." This is a great book for young people who menstruate, but it's also great for young people who don't. "Period Power," which is written in an easy to read style and is full of interesting facts, is a book about the culture, history, and privilege that go along with this most basic of bodily functions. Period resources should be for everyone, not just cis women! After all not all women menstruate, not all menstruators are women.This right here is a beautiful collection of essays about menstruation. A lot of things you might not think of are covered here. Madame Gandhi talks about how she had to stop bleeding while running the London Marathon because she was so tired. Wiley Reading talks about what it's like to be a trans man with a period in his story. Emma Straub talks about how she didn't think about a painful time for a long time. Elisabeth Daly, a book blogger and English teacher, says, “Age-appropriate books about puberty can help young girls feel more confident and less alone. This is a confusing and difficult time in a girl’s life, but knowing what to expect can help them feel supported.” Here’s a nice change of pace—menstruation as magical powers! Okay, they aren’t exactly magic, but Wild Power offers ideas about how menstruation aligns with energy to empower women. In addition to teaching the ladies how to harness and use this innate power, it also guides us to a new approach to menopause. Basically, this book redefines everything we may think about menstruation. Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology by Sharra Vostral Bodyminds Reimagined is by disability studies scholar, Sami Schalk, who’s at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I’ve admired her work for a long time and I’ve assigned a lot of her readings in classes that I’ve taught. Respond to questions or opportunities as they arise and do not be embarrassed. Periods are natural. Talking about periods

There’s this way that especially in Western science and culture, we think of humans as separate from nature, instead of understanding that there is interconnection. We are as deserving of care and conservation as the rest of the planet. What I hope is that by putting attention on the material body, we start to notice once again that our bodies are just as worthy of conservation. If we’re not taking care of ourselves, I don’t understand the point of taking care of everything else. Except that in some ways there is. A chapter that we ended up pulling from the book, but I wrote as a feature for American Scientist last year, was about pollution and disposable products for menstruation. The way we tend to think is, ‘How can we manage periods to make them invisible so we can go exist in the world?’ We tend to prioritize, ‘What are the most effective products that sop up my period blood and keep it from being visible to other people?’ In doing so, we are producing more and more disposable products that are harmful to the planet. Leslie is also a professor here at the University of Illinois and a person I’m a super fan of. She’s a professor of history, and there are two books of hers I was trying to decide between. There’s this book and then there’s her other book, When Abortion Was a Crime, which is a history of abortion from the 1800s through to the 1970s here in the US (though she mentions some other Western countries).Your menstrual cycle is a vital sign, just like your pulse, temperature, respiration rate, and blood pressure. And it provides you with the essential information about your health.” The Fifth Vital Sign, 2019. I’ve owned Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation for years. A friend gave it to me as a birthday gift, saying it’s the kind of unique thing I’d like. The cover is pretty kitschy. With the publication of F lash Count Diary : Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life last year, I remembered Flow. Then I got to thinking—how many books about periods and menopause that are not science-y can I find? The answer is quite a few. Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim

Even if you've been menstruating for a long time, you need books about periods to help you through the whole process, both physically and emotionally. We'll take care of you. Well, those warnings were because of Esther Rome and other feminist activists at the time, who made sure that we all knew there was a problem and changed how we categorize and standardize the absorbency of tampons. Angelica (Jelly for short) is the queen of comedy at school. She has a personality as big as she is, and everyone loves her impressions. But Jelly isn’t as confident as she pretends to be. No one knows her deepest thoughts and feelings. She keeps those hidden away in a secret notebook.

I teach a general education course called ‘humanizing science.’ It’s a social science course designed for science majors. For the last class of the semester, I assigned two readings that were trying to expose students to a justice-minded way of thinking about the world, to ethics, to understanding the history of science and medicine and the incentive structures and problems of science so they can go and produce a different way of doing science. That’s my big dream.

The target audience for these puberty books is girls between 8 to 14 years old. The book should include accurate information and provide honest answers while making sure that the tone and language are not too heavy for young girls. It should be easy to read and understand, especially if your child is reading the book by themselves 3. Illustrations or pictures: There are ways of covering up stains until you're able to change your clothes, such as tying a sweatshirt around your waist. Keep a spare pair of pants and tights at school or in your bag. Should I use pads, tampons, menstrual cups or period underwear?But none of them can believe Margaret doesn’t have religion, and that she isn’t going to the Y or the Jewish Community Center. What they don’t know is Margaret has her own very special relationship with God. She can talk to God about everything—family, friends, even Moose Freed, her secret crush. Some of those things may actually be true. The problem is—and this is not a new argument, I was just reading a paper from the 90s, by Antoinette Burton about this—that the project of imperial feminism, of white women going in and imposing their ideas on others, is one that’s been around for over 100 years, if not far more. It deserves being interrogated, because all people can speak for themselves. And when adult women from one culture decide that they know what’s best for the adult women or people of another culture, that’s concerning. They’re not even right all the time.