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Hi everybody,
I’m writing a book on the cultural history of menstruation. I wanted to know if any of you have ever done anything on this subject or if you know of any people or groups that do what I call ômenstrual activismö, that means the fight for the liberation and acceptance of menstruation.

I would also like to ask all of you the following questions:

Thank you! Raffaella

Words and expressions for (not) saying menstruation: do you and your boyfriends, your girlfriends, your mothers, your partners and/or husbands and wives call it in different ways? How? (please explain very strange things)

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Of course other than
The usual the periodö
The red headed aunt
The generic and deceiving “I have the curse”
”I have my periodö (??? What ?)
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I think I have always called it by it's name.
(Hey, I think that in New York there is a Museum of Menstruation)
maqui

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Menstruation, the curse, the period, and also alias: "the Friday": ?
A thousand ways of calling it..
The one I have never understood: the marquee
The most poetic: M.Z.Bradley in 'La torcia' "Moon's blood".
The one I feel my own: cycle.
A big classic on the theme is for sure F. Heritier's book 'masculine feminine'...
Ciao everyone
Mirka

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so, although my mother correctly informed me *before* the start, on causes and ways of menstruation (that is , in good faith was trying to give me a good explanation) she always called it ô to be sickö.
In fact, we are a family that is quite subject to the accompanying pain syndrome (but I can't not see a connection , even if only partial, with the way my mother called it).
A man can say of himself this is how I’m done and that is it! 'and beproud as of a
force .
A woman to accept herself has to be capable of understanding that oneself is always
the result of numerous influences and knows that one can’t put aside in such a
simplistic way the concept of ones identity. For me, a women’s strength comes just
from this, that is, from the capacity to remain loyal to her true and profoundly intima te self even when her attitud eschange. A capacity that for sure contributes to the
big ger capabilities of women’s mental flexibility.
hotchili

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