Comments on: Book Review: Flow: The Cultural History of Menstruation http://blog.gladrags.com/2010/01/18/book-review-flow-the-cultural-history-of-menstruation/ a blog from the team at GladRags Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:59:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Prexus Swyftwynd http://blog.gladrags.com/2010/01/18/book-review-flow-the-cultural-history-of-menstruation/#comment-22000 Prexus Swyftwynd Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:08:55 +0000 http://blog.gladrags.com/2010/01/18/book-review-flow-the-cultural-history-of-menstruation/#comment-22000 I have not read the book, however, I manage to bump into this blog. It is indeed a shame that reusable products are still not mainstream and I can imagine the amount of disposable menstrual garbage that it put into the landfills everyday. Many of my girl-friends are still hesitant on using alternative products and it's not easy persuading them. Heck, I even admit my own blog doesn't cover enough on alternative products. Some of my readers have reocmmended that I cover it as a topic but information never seems to be as plentiful as our traditional disposable products. Hopefully as I read more about theses alternative products that I can share with my readers accurate and positive information. Thanks for your review and reader's posts! Hopefully I can begin to explore the nature of reusable products. - Prexus Author of <a href="http://meninmenstruation.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">MEN in Menstruation</a> I have not read the book, however, I manage to bump into this blog. It is indeed a shame that reusable products are still not mainstream and I can imagine the amount of disposable menstrual garbage that it put into the landfills everyday. Many of my girl-friends are still hesitant on using alternative products and it’s not easy persuading them. Heck, I even admit my own blog doesn’t cover enough on alternative products. Some of my readers have reocmmended that I cover it as a topic but information never seems to be as plentiful as our traditional disposable products. Hopefully as I read more about theses alternative products that I can share with my readers accurate and positive information.

Thanks for your review and reader’s posts! Hopefully I can begin to explore the nature of reusable products.

- Prexus
Author of MEN in Menstruation

]]> By: Michelle http://blog.gladrags.com/2010/01/18/book-review-flow-the-cultural-history-of-menstruation/#comment-21760 Michelle Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:56:05 +0000 http://blog.gladrags.com/2010/01/18/book-review-flow-the-cultural-history-of-menstruation/#comment-21760 Great review and spot on. I too was very disappointed to see menstrual alternatives stuck in the back of the book and for the only review of cloth pads to be negative. I learned many things from the book and loved the high-gloss layout but personally I found the tone to be a little too flip. There was one part of the discussion that was distressingly inaccurate. The authors claimed that women's cycles being affected by the moon was a "popular myth" that has recently been supplanted by a scientific study on menstrual synchrony. What?! If you consider hundreds of cultures over thousands of years linking menstruation with the phases of the moon "popular myth" maybe. Further, the two ideas have nothing to do with one another and the idea that one idea has replaced the other is just a convenient transition in the writing, not a valid point. Menstrual synchrony is very interesting, but it's its own topic having to do with phermones and women's living situations. Like the culture they write about, I found the book to be focused on the physical aspects of menstruation to the detriment of other discussions that could have been included, like a real look at other cultures, art, and the less tangible aspects of bleeding. But the up-to-date look at what we know (and don't know) about the biology of bleeding was really good, and I was thrilled to see a new book come out on this topic. Great review and spot on. I too was very disappointed to see menstrual alternatives stuck in the back of the book and for the only review of cloth pads to be negative. I learned many things from the book and loved the high-gloss layout but personally I found the tone to be a little too flip. There was one part of the discussion that was distressingly inaccurate. The authors claimed that women’s cycles being affected by the moon was a “popular myth” that has recently been supplanted by a scientific study on menstrual synchrony. What?! If you consider hundreds of cultures over thousands of years linking menstruation with the phases of the moon “popular myth” maybe. Further, the two ideas have nothing to do with one another and the idea that one idea has replaced the other is just a convenient transition in the writing, not a valid point. Menstrual synchrony is very interesting, but it’s its own topic having to do with phermones and women’s living situations.
Like the culture they write about, I found the book to be focused on the physical aspects of menstruation to the detriment of other discussions that could have been included, like a real look at other cultures, art, and the less tangible aspects of bleeding. But the up-to-date look at what we know (and don’t know) about the biology of bleeding was really good, and I was thrilled to see a new book come out on this topic.

]]> By: Emma http://blog.gladrags.com/2010/01/18/book-review-flow-the-cultural-history-of-menstruation/#comment-21753 Emma Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:10:03 +0000 http://blog.gladrags.com/2010/01/18/book-review-flow-the-cultural-history-of-menstruation/#comment-21753 I was disappointed with the section on menstrual alternatives. Instead of embracing companies who strive to give women healthy, environmentally sustainable options, they negate the validity of these products. Well written review, thanks! I was disappointed with the section on menstrual alternatives. Instead of embracing companies who strive to give women healthy, environmentally sustainable options, they negate the validity of these products. Well written review, thanks!

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