Menstruation - to mailng list sexyshock
Do you have anything to say, tell about menstruation ?
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I put you on a document that I think could be of help to you, you can find it at http://www.inventati.org/amprodias/mestrum.pdf
cyborg::
When I have my period I am always in a very bad mood so I listen to Gigi d'Alessio to feel better
balcon
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Merangues!!! After seeing star whores.
margh .::
There is a very interesting essay of Emily Martin, titled "Science and Women's Bodies: Forms of Anthropological Knowledgeî part of ìBody/Politics. Women and the Discourses of Science", edited by Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller e Sally Shuttleworth, Routledge 1990. Itís interesting how it shows the different ways women of different social classes describe menstruation and explain it to younger ones. This research has influenced part of American feminism to an extent that women of the Boston Group (those of ìUs and our bodyî, so to speak and if Iím not wrong E. Martin belonged to this group) decided at the end of the nineties, to republish the bible-text of seventies feminism and took it this essay in great consideration, changing completely the chapter on menstruation, trying to free it from the scientific-patriarchal vision and instead giving voice to the variety of different ways of living and describing it.
If I succeed in finding anything else between the mountain of photocopied papers, Iíll gladly let you know. If you canít find this essay, I can photocopy it for you.
Regardless of my unstable , I seem to remember that Erica Jong in "Paura di volare" (Fear to fly) talked of a tribal group in which men had to lick womenís pussyes during their period. Quite a normal thing you might think, but the curious thing, if Iím not wrong, was that Long talked of it as a punishment or menÖ
One last thing. In the beautiful text 'Le figlie di Egalia' of Gert Brantenberg, an ironic representation of patriarchy seen the other way, womenís power (same as the well known patriarchy) is based on menstruation, so young girls go waving sanitary pads around in the face of young men yelling ìI have it and you donítîÖand from there a series of really funny things that I donít want to anticipate
Nic::
Comes in mind a book of a old professor in Bologna named Piero Camporesi on blood symbologies and of course talkes also about menstrual blood I havenít read it but his other books are very interesting he usually talks about food!
trylli::
Wrigt now I donít have access to my computer so you have any thing to say or tell
I'm just sending a link "by heart": http://www.mum.org/director.htm
I also know about a couple of songs about menstruation by I need my computer to
remember title and author. As soon as possible
SiBa