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Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty

Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?

  • Article

Rag mags and monthly issues: Five period zines to stop you seeing red

Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.

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The law of periodicity for menstruation

Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.

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How to handle your period: ten pieces of (bad) advice from history

Period pains are nothing new. Nor are innovative suggestions for how to deal with them.

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  • Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. I, The evolution of modesty : The phenomena of sexual periodicity / by Havelock Ellis.
  • Fauna from Triassic Jurassic Period
  • Chinese anatomical chart: Ming period
  • St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Mediaeval Period.
  • Acupuncture prohibitions, Chinese woodcut, Ming period
  • The liver, Chinese woodcut, Ming period
  • Decorated receptacles for paint, prehistoric period.
  • Imaginary portrait of Hippocrates, Renaissance period.
  • Mexican pottery figure representing Ocelot, Toltec period
  • Skull showing wedged weapon fracture, Roman period
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Itching Without End in the Early Modern Period

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Wandering Womb

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  • British Sign Language
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