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MENSTRUATION: A LIST OF SOURCES

PART II

compiled by Paula Wansbrough and Kathleen O'Grady



MEDICAL and PSYCHOLOGY

Berry, Constance and Frederick L. McGuire
1972.  "Menstrual Distress and Acceptance of Sexual Role."
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 114, 1 (Sept.): 83-
87.
 
Berkley, S.F.
1987.  "The Relationship of Tampon Characteristics to Menstrual
Toxic Shock Syndrome."  Journal of American Medical Association
258, 7 (Aug.): 917-20.
 
Billings, Edward G.
1933.  "The Occurrence of Cyclic Variations in Motor Activity in
Relation to the Menstrual Cycle in the Human Female."  Bulletin of
Johns Hopkins Hospital 54: 440-54.
 
Birke, Lynda and Katy Gardner
1982.  Why Suffer?  Periods and Their Problems.  London: Virago.
 
Brush, A. Louise
1938.  "Attitudes, Emotional and Physical Symptoms Commonly
Associated with Menstruation in 100 Women."  American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry 8: 286-301.
 
Chadwick, Mary
1933.  Woman's Periodicity.  London: Douglas.
1932.  The Psychological Effects of Menstruation.  New York:
Nervous and Mental Diseases.
 
Clayton, A.J., et al.
1982.  "Toxic Shock Syndrome in Canada."  Annals of Internal
Medicine 96, 2: 881-2.
 
Crawfurd, Raymond
1915.  "Notes on the Superstitions of Menstruation."  The Lancet 18
(Dec.): 1331-1336.
 
Cutler, Winnifred Berg
1980.  "Lunar and Menstrual Phase Locking."  American Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology 137: 834-839.
 
Dan, Alice J. and Linda L. Lewis, eds.
1991.  Menstrual Health in Women's Lives.  Champagne, IL:
University of Illinois Press.
 
Dan, A.J. and C.J. Leppa
1988.  "The Menstrual Cycle Research"  IN  Women's Health
Perspectives.  C.J. Leppa and C. Millin, eds.  Phoenix: The Oryx
Press, 143-160.
 
Dan, Alice J., Effie A. Graham and Carol P. Beecher, eds.
1980.  The Menstrual Cycle, Volume 1: A Synthesis of
Interdisciplinary Research.  New York: Springer.
 
Devereux, George
1950.  "The Psychology of Feminine Genital Bleeding: An Analysis of
Feminine Genital Bleeding."  International Journal of Psycho-
Analysis 31: 237-257.
 
Diamond, Milton, A. Leonard Diamond and Marian Mast
1972.  "Visual Sensitivity and Sexual Arousal Levels During the
Menstrual Cycle."  The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 155,
3: 170-176.
 
Faergeman, Poul M.
1955.  "Fantasies of Menstruation in Men."  Psychoanalytic
Quarterly 24: 1-19.
 
Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centres
1981.  A New View of a Woman's Body.  New York: Simon and Schuster.
 
Foley, Denise and Eileen Nechas
1993.  Women's Encyclopedia of Health and Emotional Healing.
Medical Adviser, Lila A. Wallis, M.D.  Assisted by the editors of
Prevention Magazine.  Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press.
 
Freidrich, Eduard
1980.  "Tampon-Associated Vaginal Ulcerations."  Obstetrics and
Gynaecology  55, 2 (Feb.): 149-56.
 
Frenkel, Richard E.
1971.  "Remembering Dreams Through Auto-Suggestion: Relationship of
Menstruation and Ovulation to the Auto-Suggestion Dream Recall
Cycle."  Behavioral Neuropsychiatry 3, 3-4: 2-11.
 
Friedman, Nancy
1981.  Everything You Must Know About Tampons.  New York: Berkley
Books.
1981.  "Tampon Effects on Vaginal Health."  Clinical Obstetrics and
Gynaecology 24, 2 (June): 395-405.
 
Golub, Sharon, ed.
1992.  Periods: From Menarche to Menopause.
1985.  Lifting the Curse of Menstruation: A Feminist Appraisal of
the Influence of Menstruation on Women's Lives.  New York:
Harrington Park Press.
1983.  Menarche: The Transition from Girl to Woman.  Lexington, MA:
D.C. Health.
 
Golub, Sharon and J. Catalano
1983.  "Recollections of Menarche and Women's Subsequent
Experiences with Menstruation."  Women and Health 8: 49-61.
 
Graham, C.A. and W.C. McGrew
1980.  "Menstrual Synchrony in Female Undergraduates Living on a
Coeducational Campus."  Psychoneuroendocrinology 3: 245-252.
 
Halbreich, Uriel and Jean Endicott
1982.  "Classification of Premenstrual Syndromes"  IN  Behaviour
and the Menstrual Cycle.  Richard C. Friedman, ed.  New York:
Marcel Dekker, Pp. 243-265.
 
Hertz, Dan G. and Mogens R. Jensen
1975.  "Menstrual Dreams and Psychodynamics: Emotional Conflict and
Manifest Dream Content in Menstruating Women."  British Journal of
Medical Psychology 48: 175-183.
 
Hollingworth, Leta Stetter
1914.  Functional Periodicity: An Experimental Study of the Mental
and Motor Abilities of Women During Menstruation.  New York:
Teacher's College, Columbia University.  Contributors to Education,
69.  Reprinted New York: AMS Press, 1972.
 
Hongladarom, Gail Chapman, Ruth McCorkle and Nancy Fugate Woods
1982.  The Complete Book of Women's Health.  New Jersey: Prentice-
Hall.
 
Ivey, Melville E. and Judith M. Bardwick
1968.  "Patterns of Affective Fluctuation in the Menstrual Cycle."
Psychosomatic Medicine 30, 3: 336-45.
 
Jacobi, Mary Putnam
1877.  The Question of Rest for Women During Menstruation.  New
York: Putnam's Sons.
 
Kiltie, Richard A.
1982.  "On the Significance of Menstrual Synchrony in Closely
Associated Women."  American Naturalist 119, 3 (March): 414-419.
 
Koeske, Randi Daimon
1983.  "Lifting the Curse of Menstruation: Toward a Feminist
Perspective on the Menstrual Cycle."  Women and Health 8, 2-3: 1-
16.
 
Koeske, Randi K. and Gary F. Koeske
1975.  "An Attributional Approach to Moods and the Menstrual
Cycle."  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 31, 3: 473-
478.
 
Koff, Elissa, Jill Rierdan and Stacy Jacobson
1981.  "The Personal and Interpersonal Significance of Menarche."
Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry 20: 148-58.
 
Koff, Elissa, Jill Rierdan and Esther Silverstone
1978.  "Changes in Representation of Body Image as a Function of
Menarcheal Status."  Developmental Psychology 14, 6: 635-642.
 
Komnenich, Pauline, S.N. Elder, M. McSweeney and J.A. Novak, eds
1980.  The Menstrual Cycle, Volume II:  Research and Implications
for Women's Health.  New York: Springer.
 
Lanson, Lucienne
1981.  From Woman to Woman: A Gynaecologist Answers Questions About
You and Your Body.  New York: Knopf.
 
Lark, Susan M.
1993.  Anemia & Heavy Menstrual Flow: a Self-Help Program.  Los
Altos, CA: Westchester Publishing.
 
Lauersen, Niels H. and Constance deSwaan
1988.  The Endometriosis Answer Book: New Hope, New Help.  New
York: Fawcett Columbine.
 
Malina, R. M.
1982.  "Delayed Age of Menarche of Athletes."  Journal of the
American Medical Association 247: 3312.
 
Matria, C. and Patricia Mullen
1978.  "Reclaiming Menstruation: A Study of Alienation and
Repossession."  Women and Health 3, 3: 23-30.
 
McClintock, Martha K.
1971.  "Menstrual Synchrony and Suppression."  Nature 229, 5285:
244-245.
 
Meigs, Charles
1879.  Females and Their Diseases.  Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton.
 
Montagu, M.F. Ashley
1940.  "Physiology and the Origins of the Menstrual Prohibitions."
Quarterly Review of Biology 15, 2: 211-220.
 
O'Connor, J.F., E.M. Shelley and Lenore O. Stern
1973.  "Behavioral Rhythms Related to the Menstrual Cycle."
International Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction.  New
York, Pp.7.
 
Paige, Karen E.
1971.  "Effects of Oral Contraceptives on Affective Fluctuations
Associated with the Menstrual Cycle."  Psychosomatic Medicine 33,
6: 515-37.
 
Parlee, Mary Brown
1974.  "Stereotypic Beliefs About Menstruation: A Methodological
Note on the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire and Some New
Data."  Psychosomatic Medicine 36, 3 (May-June): 229-240.
 
Patterson, E. T. and E.S. Hale
1985.  "Making Sure: Integrating Menstrual Care Practices Into
Activities of Daily Living."  Advances In Nursing Science 7, 3: 18-
31.
 
Patty, Rosemarie Anderson and Marcia M. Ferrell
1974.  "A Preliminary Note on the Motive to Avoid Success and the
Menstrual Cycle."  The Journal of Psychology 86: 173-177.
 
Percival, Eleanor
1943.  "Menstrual Disturbances as They May Affect Women in
Industry."  The Canadian Nurse 39: 335-37.
 
Presser, H.B.
1978.  "Age at Menarche, Socio-Sexual Behaviour, and Fertility."
Social Biology 25: 94-101.
1974.  "Temporal Data Relating to the Human Menstrual Cycle"  IN
Biorhythms and Human Reproduction.  M. Ferin, F. Halberg, R.M.,
eds.
 
Quadagno, D.M., H.M. Shubeita, J. Deck and D. Francouer
1981.  "Influence of Male Social Contacts, Exercise and All-Female
Living Conditions on the Menstrual Cycle."
Psychoneuroendocrinology 6: 239-244.
 
Robbins, Ruth, et al.
1989.  "Effect of Tampon Wraps on Production of Toxic Shock
Syndrome Toxin 1."  Reviews of Infectious Diseases Vol. 2, 1 (Jan.-
Feb.): S197-S202.
 
Rossi, Alice S. and Peter E. Rossi
1977.  "Body Time and Social Time: Mood Patterns by Menstrual Cycle
Phase and Day of the Week."  Social Science Research 6: 273-308.
 
Russell, M.J., G.M. Switz, and K. Thompson
1980.  "Olfactory Influences on the Human Menstrual Cycle."
Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behaviour 13: 737-738.
 
Scambler, Annette and Graham Scambler
1993.  Menstrual Disorders -- The Experience of Illness Series.
Ray Fitzpatrick and Stanton Newman, eds.  London and New York:
Tavistock; Routledge.
 
Seward, G.H.
1944.  "Psychological Effects of the Menstrual Cycle on Women
Works."  Psychological Bulletin, V. 41: 90-102.
 
Sheldrake, Peter and Margaret Cormack
1974.  "Dream Recall and the Menstrual Cycle."  Journal of
Psychosomatic Research 18: 347-350.
 
Silbermann, Isidor
1950.  "A Contribution to the Psychology of Menstruation."
International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 31: 258-267.
Snow, Loudell F. and Shirley M. Johnson
1977.  "Modern Day Menstrual Folklore: Some Clinical Implications."
Journal of the American Medical Association 237, 25 (June 20):
2736-2739.
 
Snowden, Robert and Barbara Christian, eds.
1983.  Patterns and Perceptions of Menstruation: A World Health
Organization International Collaborative Study in Egypt, India,
Indonesia, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of
Korea, United Kingdom and Yugoslavia.  New York: St. Martin's
Press.
 
Sommer, Barbara
1984.  "PMS in the Courts: Are All Women on Trial?"  Psychology
Today 18, 8 (August): 36-38.
1973.  "The Effect of Menstruation on Cognitive and Perceptual
Motor-Behaviour: A Review."  Psychosomatic Medicine 35, 6 (Nov.-
Dec.): 515-534.
 
Taylor, Diana L. and Nan F. Woods, eds.
1991.  Menstruation, Health, and Illness.  Bristol, PA: Hemisphere,
1991.
 
Wetzel, Richard D. and James N. McClure
1972.  "Suicide and the Menstrual Cycle: A Review."  Comprehensive
Psychiatry 13, 4 (July-Aug.): 369-374.
 
Whisnant, Lynn, Elizabeth Brett and Leonard Zergans
1975.  "Implicit Messages Concerning Menstruation in Commercial
Educational Materials Prepared for Young Girls."  American Journal
of Psychiatry 132, 8: 815-20.
 
Witzig, Diane and Sharon Ostwald
1985.  "Knowledge of Toxic Shock Syndrome Among Adolescent Females:
A Need for Education."  Journal of School Health 55, 1 (Jan.): 17-
19.
 

ORGANIZATIONS

CANADA


Brown, Loulou, Helen Collins, Pat Green, Maggie Humm, Mel Landells,
eds.
1993.  The International Handbook of Women's Studies (W.I.S.H.).
Hertfordshire: Simon & Schuster International Group.
 
Candian Women's Health Network
c/o Women's Health Clinic
3rd Floor, 419 Graham Ave.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3C 0M3
Fax: (204) 943-3844
 
Endometriosis Association, International Headquarters
1-800-426-2END
 
Women and Environments Education and Development Foundation
736 Bathurst Street, Toronto
Ontario  M5S 2R4
(416) 516-2600
 
Women's Health Interaction
55 Arthur Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1R 7B9
 

UNITED STATES

Brecher, Deborah and Jill Lippitt 1994. The Women's Information Exchange National Directory. New York: Avon; the Philip Lief Group. Boston Women's Health Book Collective 240A Elm St. Somerville, MA 02144 (617) 625-0294 Endometriosis Association, International Headquarters 8585 N. 76th Place Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53223 1-800-992-3636 Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centres 633 E 11th St. Eugene, OR 97401 (503) 342-5940 HERS -- Hysterectomy Eductional Resources and Services Foundation (215) 667-7757 Institute for Research on Women's Health 1616 18 St. NW, #109 Washington, DC 20009 (202) 483-8643 Fax: (301) 216-2157 International Women's Health Coalition 24 E 21st St. New York, NY 10010 (212) 979-8500 Melpomene Institute for Women's Health Research 1010 University Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104 (612) 642-1951 Fax: (612) 642-1871 Menstrual Health Foundation 104 Petaluma Ave. Sebastopol, CA 95472 (707) 829-2744 Museum of Menstruation P.O. Box 2398 Landover Hills Branch Hyattsville, Maryland 20784-2398 (301) 459-4450 Fax: (301) 577-2913 National Black Women's Health Project 1237 Gordon St. SW Atlanta, GA 30310 (404) 753-0916 Fax: (404) 752-6756 National Women's Health Network (202) 625-0271 Native American Women's Health Education Resource Centre P.O. Box 572 Lake Andes, SD 57356 (605) 487-7072 Fax: (605) 487-7964 Organizacion Nacional de la Salud National Latina Health Organization P.O. Box 7567 Oakland, CA 94601 (510) 534-1362 Society for Menstrual Cycle Research 10559 N 104th Pl. Scottsdale, AZ 85258 (602) 457-9731

(NOTE: See also Kathleen O'Grady's 1998 bibliography, Menstruation and Relgion)


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Paula Wansbrough and Kathleen O'Grady (Trinity College, Cambridge)
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