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Oh, brother, 1993 / Louise Story, Cos Cob, CT -- ... Good-bye green thumb, 1942 / Thelma Kandel, New York, NY -- Burning secret, 1966 / Suzan Shutan, East Haven, CT -- Fear of fourteen, 1991 / Erica Jong, New York, NY -- The lie, 1948 / Shalom Victor, Santa Cruz, CA -- Germany, 1942 / Nina Bassman, Queens, NY -- The artist, 1968 / Nina Bentley, Westport, CT -- Bloody Bat Mitzvah, 2002 / Sarah Rosen, New Haven, CT -- Going to x-tremes, 1982 / Michele Jaffe, Los Angeles, CA -- Blood relative, 1976 / Sondra Freundlich-Hall, San Francisco, CA -- Too wet, 1994 / Rafia -- Guatemala : advice from a cheesemaker, 1953 / Flori, Chicago, IL -- Mehn-su, 1992 / Amy H. Lee, Berkeley, CA -- Can I just skip this period? 1971 / Patty Marx, New York, NY -- Silence, 1930s / Elizabeth Sicilliano, Cleveland, OH -- A jealous Vajayjay, 1981 / Nancy L. Caruso, Cardiff, CA -- Into the woods, 1964 / Sharon Gerhard, Novato, CA -- Loss and gain of responsibility, 1969 / Zannette Lewis, Richmond, VA -- The Ming period, 1999 / Aliza Shvarts, Los Angeles, CA -- Andy Roddick's serve, 2003 / Jen Bashian, Los Angeles, CA -- An invisible period, 1981 / S., New York, NY -- Read More Oh, the "joy" of menses! 1987 / Megan McCafferty, ... Princeton, NJ -- The blusher, 2002 / Elli Foster, Lancaster, PA -- Hot dog on a string, 1993 / Ellen Devine, Wallingford, CT -- Chairman Mao's period, 1967 / Xiao Ling Ma, Nanjing, China -- LOL {.}, 2005 / Zoe Kauder Nalebuff, New Haven, CT -- Blood on the tracks, 1972 / Patricia E. Boyd, Pittsburgh, PA -- Ink blots and milk spots, 1987 / Krista Madsen, Brooklyn, NY -- Glamorous, but not for long, 1981 / Jennifer Baumgardner, New York, NY -- I know you are not there, God. It's me, Kate, 1990 / Kate Zieman, Toronto, Canada -- The curse, 1939 / Lola Gerhard -- The simple vase : part I, 1997 / Laura Wexler, New Haven, CT -- The simple vase : part II, 1997 / Rebecca Wexler, New York, NY -- Let down, 2007 / Tatum Travers, Chicago, IL -- Desperately delayed, 1970 / Judy Nicholson Asselin, Westtown, PA -- Proper disposal, 1993 / Catherine Conant, Middletown, CT -- Mattress pad, 1990 / Yulia, New York -- No gushing for me, please, 1970 / Monica Wesolowska, Berkeley, CA -- The slap, 1972 / Ilene Lainer, New York, NY -- Rescued by a refugee, 1941 / Pearl Stein Selinsky, Sacramento, CA -- The wrath of the gods, 1970 / Jill Bialosky, Cleveland, OH -- Locked in a room with Dosai, 1962 / Shobha Sharma, Chennai, India -- Simple as salt, 1967 and 2008 / Jacquelyn Mitchard, Madison, WI -- Señoria, 1980 / Kica Matos, New Haven, CT -- Can I sit on his lap? 1916 / Henrietta Wittenberg, New York, NY -- Barbies and biology, 1996 / Aysegul Altintas, Istanbul, Turkey -- An excerpt from "Letters" / Maxine Kumin, New Hampshire -- Read More My support system was a box, 1977 / Bonnie ... Garmisa, Guilford, CT -- Jaws, 2004 / Lily Gottchalk, Wallingford, CT -- Dying in the land of Dionysus, 1972 / Mary Hu, New Haven, CT -- Step toward womanhood, but with stepmom, 1983 / Lisa Selin Davis, Brooklyn, NY -- Yodelay uh-oh, 1982 / Cecily von Ziegesar, Brooklyn, NY -- The white dress, 1971 / Kathi Kovacic, Cleveland, OH -- Up at the chalkboard, 1979 / Emilia Arthur, Accra, Ghana -- If men could menstruate / Gloria Steinem, New York, NY -- A puddle, 1991 / Laura Madeline Wiseman, Arizona -- Out of the closet, 1968 / Joyce Maynardd, Mill Valley, CA -- Staining the Ciroën, 1970 / Catherine Johnson-Roehr, Bloomington, IN -- Cranberry sauce, 1993 / Barclay Rachael Gang, Miami, FL -- Tsihabuhkai, 1962 / Juanita Pahdopony, Lawton, OK -- The dream, 1994 / Annie Sherman, Chico, CA -- Operation menstruation! 1998 / Jennifer Asanin Dean, Hamilton, Canada -- Crushed leaves in Kenya, 2006 / Thatcher Mweu, Nairobi, Kenya -- Where's my belt? 1979 / Meg Cabot, Bloomington, IN -- My second first period, 1977 / Bernadette Murphy, Los Angeles, CA -- Memory : day 1, 1973 / M. Eliza Hamilton Abegunde, Evanston, IL -- A coup at the napkin dispenser, 1960 / Linda Lindroth, New Haven, CT -- Downward dog, 2004 / Marian Firke, Chicago, IL -- The harness, 1961 / Deo Robbins, Santa Cruz, CA -- The Von Trapps and me / Debby Dodds, Los Angeles, CA -- Dress appropriately, 1974 / Bita Moghaddam, Pittsburgh, PA -- The earache, 1975 / Dr. Miriam nelson, Medford, MA -- Progressive parenting, 1993 / Nancy Gruver and Joe Kelly, Duluth, MN -- Read More Showdown at the HoJo, 1968 / Linda Greenberg, ... Chicago, IL -- No longer in little league, 1993 / Moira Kathleen Ray, Portland, OR -- Euro Disney, 1992 / Jessy Schuster, Miami, FL -- On horseback, 1960s / Margaret Whitton, Martha's Vineyard, MA -- Not getting it, 1980 / Rachel Vail, New York, NY -- The mermaid, 1974 / Sara Hickman, Austin, TX -- When you phoned home from California to tell me it had started / Penelope Scambly Schott, Portland, OR -- Peanut butter and chocolate milk, 1959 / Kathrine Switzer, New Zealand and New York, NY -- Tamora Pierce saves the day, 2006 / Madeleine, New York, NY -- Slippery in the stairwell, 1965 / Tamora Pierce, New York -- Down under, 1983 / Jenni Deslandes, Sydney, Australia -- Time for prayer, 2006 / Fatema Maswood, Cromwell, CT -- The right place at the right time, 1952 / Leigh Bienen, Evanston, IL -- Blood month, 1979 / Sandra Guy, Paris, France -- Late bloomer, 1998 / Emily Hagenmaier, Los Angeles, Ca -- History sometimes repeats itself, 1970 / Marianne Bernstein, Philadelphia, PA -- Twelve-step program, 1946 / Marcia Nalebuff, Newton, MA -- Flow, 1983 / Tonya Hurley, New York, NY -- You always remember your first / Carla Cohen, Washington, DC -- Euphemisms and code words -- Learn more -- Do more. 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