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We’ll smear the blood on our faces. (Bass 1980)
January 30, 2026 at 6:46 PM
The flow is compared to an overabundant Nile flood, and the remedy against this, a linen tampon, to a dam or the sanctuary of Tait. (Frandsen 2007)
January 30, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Words for menstrual blood in Greek and Latin (καταμήνια and “menses”) show that ancient Mediterranean society did expect it to flow monthly. (Dean-Jones 1989)
January 29, 2026 at 12:47 PM
In this experiment, menstruating women accompanied wild, human-habituated black bears as the bears foraged and rested 0-4 m away (Rogers and Wilker 1990), or the women hand-fed the bears. (Rogers, Wilker & Scott 1991)
January 29, 2026 at 11:09 AM
when i don’t practice feminine hygiene
a red Rorschach grows between my thighs
and you might see dirty pictures (Greist 2003)
January 29, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Critical menstrual feminist textualizing—thinking, writing, reading, living, pausing—is to be interlingual or translingual in its very material density (Lee 2017)
January 28, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Although adaptive explanations for menstruation go back at least twenty-five hundred years, in the last decade two new hypotheses have been advances. (Finn 1998)
January 28, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Menstruation is also of greater importance among first offenders than among those with more than three previous convictions. (Dalton 1961)
January 28, 2026 at 7:03 PM
The terminology for menstruation has been the subject of some discussion, and I shall therefore begin this study with a brief review of that problem. (Frandsen 2007)
January 28, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Leaving menstruation out of porn and lumping graphic sexual depictions of menstruation together with shit and piss reflect and reinforce a primitive backwater ignorance about women and the human body (Trixie 2004)
January 28, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Pepys mentions his wife’s menstruation several times, Ralph Josselin perhaps once. (Crawford 1981)
January 28, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I refer times as athletic championships, examinations, dings, when a condition of bodily comfort and mind is essential, and this cannot be if these coincide with menstruation. (Foss 1937)
January 28, 2026 at 8:23 AM
It is a well-known fact, too, that the menstruous discharge, reduced to ashes, and applied with furnace soot and wax, is a cure for ulcers upon all kinds of beasts of burden; (Pliny the Elder 77 CE)
January 27, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Galen’s view that menstrual blood supplied nutriment to the foetus (Hindson 2009)
January 27, 2026 at 8:31 PM
The only clear connection, indeed, between menstruation and clothing is that the girl often wears some sign of her marriageability after the first menstruation on her head or body in the way of an ornament; (Thomas 1899)
January 27, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Having read with great interest Dr. Alice E. Sanderson Clown’s paper on “Menstruation during school life” (October 2nd, p. 511), I should like to make a few brief criticisms, as I am working on the subject also. (Andrews 1920)
January 27, 2026 at 1:59 PM
As Dailey enthused: “Helping women to know that they can take control of their menstruation back from scientists and multinational corporations is very exciting, (Bobel 1963)
January 27, 2026 at 1:23 PM
The cyclical changes in a woman’s body correspond to and represent the cyclical changes in the seasons. (Patel 1994)
January 27, 2026 at 12:52 PM
We cannot fail to note other points of similarity between the menstrual process and the puerperal process. (Barnes 1889)
January 27, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Adolescent and adult women commonly report difficulty obtaining preferred menstrual materials; (Hennegan, Tsui & Sommer 2019)
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
The phenomena of menstruation, like others depending upon the ovaria, appear at the time when those organs are developed; namely, at puberty. (Laycock 1840)
January 27, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Notice how the ‘filthy’ female body becomes a paradoxical subject in Antigonus of Carystus ch.118: (Kazantzidis 2018)
January 27, 2026 at 6:15 AM
menstrual blood, one significant (“thick, cloudy”) liquid Derrida does not mention (Medoro 2000)
January 27, 2026 at 5:50 AM
The creative ritualization of menstruation allows the pilgrims to reinterpret Catholic rituals thereby
transforming negative concepts related to body and gender they have received from their Catholic families. (Fedele 2014)
January 26, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Two thirds of the men and women believed that menstruation should not be discussed at work or socially. (McNab 1985)
January 26, 2026 at 8:36 PM