Brazilian student needs help with research
I am doing research on the INTERFERENCE OF THE PERIOD IN THE DAILY OF WOMEN and I am having trouble finding materials to serve as reference for my research work. Can you help?
I am Brazilian, Enfermeiranda and I need the material fast. I don't know how to speak English and am using a program in the computer to help me to communicate with you.
Thanks,
Alessandra Nasciemnto Ponte.
anponte@bol.com.br
Red Tide kills people
Regarding the "Words and Expressions" page of your site, I've never heard that the Red Tide kills fish, but it sure kills people. Quicker but more final than a visit from Aunt Flo.
http://www.doh.wa.gov/Topics/Red_Tide.htm
I'm enjoying your rather, um, comprehensive Web site, but please don't list my name on it!
She has trouble finding the Instead menstrual cup [history of cups]
Instead menstrual cup
I have been using Instead [picture at left] for months and I think it is a great product! It is hard to find and that is the problem. Sometimes it is sold out where I usually buy it. I wish more stores sold it. I do not have any complaints with this product. I am going to go to their site to find out where I can get some more.
[Read comments from women using menstrual cups.]
Herbal information on fertility, contraception and abortion
Hey Harry,
I found your Web page today and was utterly pleased. Thanks!
I think this site is decidedly worth mentioning or linking on your site, if it's not hiding in there in some part I didn't see:
www.geocities.com/sister_zeus/
She has fabulous fertility-awareness information, as well as herbal contraceptive and herbal abortion info
g'night, and take care
Young German says their expressions come from North America
Dear Mr. Finley!
When I first visited your Web site of menstruation I was very impressed that there are so many expressions for the worst days in women`s life. But what you wrote about German expressions is not really "funny."
The German expressions are not the words young people would use one week a month. I am German and I think that the expressions are those of some adults. Well, the mostly used words in Germany are all translated from the American or Canadian expressions (like "riding on the red wave").
So please complete the list of German expressions!
Greetings from Germany
[It's amazing, and a shame, I think, to see how far American and Canadian youth culture has changed German culture and the cultures of other countries. But similar things have happened many times in history: the French language was the language of the English Parliament early on and profoundly affected the English language - this is just one example. Life goes on.]
Thanks from a Canadian student
Just a little note to say "What an awesome site!"
I am a [college student in Canada]. Two of my classmates in Women in Religion just did a class presentation today. They told us about your site. What a great job, thank you. [You're welcome! See an out-of-control section on religion and menstruation.]
Book about menstruation published in Spain
The Spanish journalist who contributed some words for menstruation to this site last year and wrote about this museum (MUM) in the Madrid newspaper "El País" just co-authored with her daughter a book about menstruation (cover at left).
She writes, in part,
Dear Harry Finley,
As I told you, my daughter (Clara de Cominges) and I have written a book (called "El tabú") about menstruation, which is the first one to be published in Spain about that subject. The book - it talks about the MUM - is coming out at the end of March and I just said to the publisher, Editorial Planeta, to contact you and send you some pages from it and the cover as well. I'm sure that it will be interesting to you to have some information about the book that I hope has enough sense of humour to be understood anywhere. Thank you for your interest and help.
If you need anything else, please let me know.
Best wishes,
Margarita Rivière
Belen Lopez, the editor of nonfiction at Planeta, adds that "Margarita, more than 50 years old, and Clara, 20, expose their own experiences about menstruation with a sensational sense of humour." (Later this month more information will appear on the publisher's site, in Spanish.)
My guess is that Spaniards will regard the cover as risqué, as many Americans would. And the book, too. But, let's celebrate!
Two weeks ago I mentioned that Procter & Gamble was trying to change attitudes in the Spanish-speaking Americas to get more women to use tampons, specifically Tampax - a hard sell.
Compare this cover with the box cover for the Canadian television video about menstruation, Under Wraps, and the second The Curse.
An American network is now developing a program about menstruation for a popular cable channel; some folks from the network visited me recently to borrow material.
And this museum lent historical tampons and ads for a television program in Spain last year.
Now, if I could only read Spanish! (I'm a former German teacher.)
If you had a party or created a ritual to celebrate your first period, we would be interested in hearing your story and seeing your videos, pictures.
This would be for possible inclusion in a television documentary called
Reinventing Rituals, Coming of Age in a Modern World for Vision Television, in Canada.Series consultant is Ron Grimes, internationally recognized expert on ritual and the author of numerous books on ritual including his most recent, Deeply Into the Bone, Reinvented Rite of Passage.
These three one hour specials, Coming of Age in the Modern World; Marriage Separation and Divorce; and Birth and Death are co-production between Northern Lights Television in Toronto and Ocean Entertainment in Halifax for Vision Television Network. They will air on Vision TV, a Canadian specialty channel whose mandate is to cover multi-faith, multicultural stories about the human spirit.
Reinventing Rituals will explore exotic cultures and ceremonies that may, on the surface, bear little resemblance to the hallmarks of our own lives. We will witness dramatic initiation ceremonies from Africa, complex funerals from New Guinea, and elaborate wedding and courtship rituals from South America. Viewers will become acquainted with traditional rites from many different cultures, contemporary and historic.
However, at the core of this series are the North Americans who are exploring new ways to mark transitions. We'll meet parents who are preparing to spend their children out in the mountains to spend grueling days and nights in initiation ceremonies; individuals who are approaching the end of life determined to design all aspects of their own funerals; and expectant couples who are redefining appropriate behaviour in the birthing room. This series is about these men and women and their quest to reinvent traditional rites of passage; but it's also about the connections that can be drawn between these modern pioneers and their counterparts in other times and places.
Program #1 The Bridge: Coming of Age in the Modern Reinventing Rites of Passage.
Reinventing Rituals is a compelling series of television documentaries that explore the dramatic resurgence in ritual and how it is being interpreted or recreated in order to give meaning to our lives.
From first menstruation ceremonies to vision quests, traditional societies have used ritual to help young people mark and make the transition from adolescence to adulthood. All but abandoned by Western culture, initiation rituals are suddenly becoming more popular.
The increasing profile of street gangs, drug wars, and teenage promiscuity in our communities have contributed to rising the popularity of the coming of age rituals. Many parents fear that if they do not provide an initiation scenario their children will initiate themselves using sex, drugs or dangerous behaviour. By enrolling their children in complex and often dramatic initiation rites, families can help young people make the difficult transition to adulthood. In this program we meet youth at the National Rites of Passage Institute in Cleveland Ohio who have spent the past year in a coming of age program. And then we'll join up with teenagers who've enrolled in a 10 day-long program outside Calgary, Alberta as they prepare to spend three World
If you are interested and/or need more information, contact
Deannie Sullivan Fraser
reinventing_rituals@hotmail.com
902-423-9056 phone
902-423-9058 fax
SNAIL MAIL: Ocean ENTERTAINMENT, SUITE 404, 1657 BARRINGTON STREET, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA B3J 2A1
Irregular menses identify women at high risk for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which exists in 6-10% of women of reproductive age. PCOS is a major cause of infertility and is linked to diabetes.
