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Women, then, are formed and rules by the sickness which define them: menstruation, childbirth, lactation, the menopause. (Goldberg 1984)

6. This is a period when the health of girls requires to be carefully guarded. (Johnston 1935)

menstruation became a negative purgation than endangered the body. (Hindson 2009)

Dr. Ferguson then gave details of two cases in which psychotherapy had been effective in enabling the patient to readjust herself to the change of life. (U.A. 1934)

Some called it “the flowers,” because as these precede fructification in vegetables, so does menstruation indicate in women the capability of being fecundated. (Laycock 1840)

Once I went to such-and-such a prefecture, and saw in the middle of a large field there a Hell composed of a pond of menstruation blood (Ketsubon Kyō, 12th–13th century CE)

sexual health information, which some communities find socially inappropriate, (Hennegan, Tsui & Sommer 2019)

I have attempted to picture the relation between ovulation and menstruation in women who menstruate regularly with a normal rhythm. (Shaw 1934)

There is also pressure to hide the fact that we menstruate that seems to cut across cultural backgrounds: (de la Rey 1992)

Menstruation per se has no meaning, for menstruation per se does not exist. (Lander 1988)

sponges vs. tampons: nobody wins (Moira 1980)

Goldschmidt (1934), studying American college women, found that out of thirty-one women who remained up and about during their periods, twenty-five associated them with feelings of depression. (McCance, Luff & Widdowson 1937)

Dr Juan de Quiñones de Benavente, a prominent physician at Madrid in the early seventeenth century, who wrote an entire treatise which proved that not only did Jewish men menstruate, but they also had a tail. (Katz 1999)

Menstrual blood, like Plato’s pharmakon, is “undecidable,” (Medoro 2000)

He who lies down (with her) becomes contaminated, (Zohar)

Heape’s original view that menstruation is identical with the pro-oestrous haemorrhage which takes place in such animals as the bitch (Cannon 1930)

He identified a hierarchy of dirt related to the body and its parts and products. (Koutroulis 2001)

This study is inconclusive because of the small number of Ss, the short period under investigation, and lack of a control-group. (Hubbard Jones 1945)

a story obsessed with blood (Medoro 2000)

We bleed. (Bass 1980)

menstrual in/visibility (Lee 2017)

A woman from Peking reported a saying, hung ma shang ch'uang, chia p'o jen wang, “If a red horse [the menstruating woman] gets on the bed, the family will collapse and its members die.” (Ming-Yeuk Chu 1980)

We’ll smear the blood on our faces. (Bass 1980)

The flow is compared to an overabundant Nile flood, and the remedy against this, a linen tampon, to a dam or the sanctuary of Tait. (Frandsen 2007)

Words for menstrual blood in Greek and Latin (καταμήνια and “menses”) show that ancient Mediterranean society did expect it to flow monthly. (Dean-Jones 1989)

In this experiment, menstruating women accompanied wild, human-habituated black bears as the bears foraged and rested 0-4 m away (Rogers and Wilker 1990), or the women hand-fed the bears. (Rogers, Wilker & Scott 1991)

when i don’t practice feminine hygiene
a red Rorschach grows between my thighs
and you might see dirty pictures (Greist 2003)

Critical menstrual feminist textualizing—thinking, writing, reading, living, pausing—is to be interlingual or translingual in its very material density (Lee 2017)

Although adaptive explanations for menstruation go back at least twenty-five hundred years, in the last decade two new hypotheses have been advances. (Finn 1998)

Menstruation is also of greater importance among first offenders than among those with more than three previous convictions. (Dalton 1961)