February 20: Menstruation

Readings

• Morgan Jerkins: “Who Gets to Take Part in the Menstruation
  Conversation?” (reader)
• Brianna Gardner: “A Century of Menstrual-Product Advertising” (reader)
• Joan Brumberg: “Sanitizing Puberty: The 20thC American Way
  to Menstruate” (reader)
• Wendy Weiner: “The Last Taboo of Reality TV” (reader)

Links

Films: Period Piece and Molly Grows Up
Linda’s Film on Menstruation (1974) (17:48)

-If Men Had Periods

-First Period (2013) from students at National Institute of Design,Ahmadabad
-Celebrating your first period (1:26) (2014)  (Waratah Project, Australia)
“Perhaps you’ve noticed you’re changing” (Australia)

http://www.scarleteen.com/article/body/on_the_rag_a_guide_to_menstruation
“Growing up and liking it”
Museum of Menstruation and Women’s Health:  http://www.mum.org/