Period Power aims to explain what menstruation is, shed light on the stigmas and resulting biases, and create a strategy to end the silence and prompt conversation about periods.

This book interrogates how the so-called “Feminine Care” industry travelled from the United States to Latin America via manufactured and disposable menstrual management technologies and certain narratives about menstrual bodies.

These essays also speak to contemporary feminist issues such as shaping women's identity, power relations between women and men, and the role of women in the sacred.

Who hasn’t wondered why we get a period, what women did before the invention of the tampon—let alone the pad. Flow explains all.” —Body and Soul Magazine

This book offers a new perspective on the extensive rabbinic discussions of menstrual impurity, female physiology, and anatomy, and on the social and religious institutions those discussions engendered.

The Modern Period ties historical changes in menstrual practices to a much broader argument about American popular modernity in the twentieth century.

"In its hard headed, richly documented concreteness, it is worth a thousand polemics." -- New York Times, from a review of the first edition "The Curse deserves a place in every women's studies library collection.

Los ensayos recogidos en esta publicacion muestran una vision del ciclo menstrual femenino que va mas alla del punto de vista meramente biologico, insertandolo en el contexto sociocultural.

But how and why did this occur? This book looks at the social history of menstrual hygiene by examining it as a technology.