The rags: paraphernalia of menstruation

Links


Taking precautions: the story of contraception
(Powerhouse Museum previous exhibition)

Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health (USA)

Historical Collections, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

‘Menstruation blues’ - film of Robyn Archer song by Featherstone Productions (Australian Film Commission website australianscreen)

Further reading:

Al-Khalidi, Alia, 'Emergent technologies in menstrual paraphernalia in mid-nineteenth-century Britain', Journal of Design History, Vol 14 No 4, 2001, pp 257-273.

Brookes, Barbara, & Tennant, Margaret, 'Periods in history', Women's Studies Journal, 10:2 (September 1994), pp 103 – 114.

Cooper, Annabel, et al, 'Rooms of their own: public toilets and gendered citizens in a New Zealand city, 1860-1940', Gender, Place and Culture, Vol 7, No 4, pp 417-433.

Costello, Alison, Vallely, Bernadette, & Young, Josa, The sanitary protection scandal, Women's Environmental Network (287 City Road, London, UK EC1V 1LA), ISBN 0951429701, 1989, 114 pp.

Gladwell, Malcolm, 'John Rock's error', The New Yorker, 10 March 2000.
http://www.gladwell.com/2000/2000_03_10_a_rock.htm (But see also Lee, John R, 'John Rock's error - A critique of the article in the New Yorker magazine'
http://www.johnleemd.net/breaking_news/birth_control_pills.html)

Houppert, Karen, The curse, Farrer, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0374273669, 1999.