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Some of Reddy's recommendations for woman-friendly, body-loving books, websites, publications.
web sites
www.theredtent.net
The Red Tent online. Place to hear about what you would like in your red tent, moontime eats, periods with only one ovary, PMS and getting older; topics change all the time.
www.redwebfoundation.org
Menstrual Health Advocates Organization
The Red Web is an umbrella menstrual health organization “dedicated to creating a positive societal view of the lifelong menstrual cycle through education and community”. The Red Web members form a collective of menstrual advocates and educators, so if you work with girls or women and are looking for a supportive community around menstruation, join the Web. Also a great resource of knowledgeable menstrual health advocates.
One of the MOST comprehensive archives of books, websites, articles, projects, etc - almost anything menstrual
www.tampontification.com
We are loving this. Seventh Generation are donating chlorine-free
pads and tampons to women shelters. All it takes is a click from you to
bring it to your state.
Read menstrual stories, check out the
Mission Fairies blog, write poetry. They are bringing menstruation out
of the closet, for sure!
www.natracare.com
Our favorite disposable products ever! The genius woman who designed these pads has taken her website to the logical next step - explaining our cycles to us. What a fabulous site to teach girls about their bodies. So sweetly done too. Bravo!
www.seac.org/tampons
Information about the tampon industry
"Menstrual health activists and the Tampaction Campaign aim to eradicate the use of unhealthy, unsustainable tampons and pads, institutionalize sustainable alternatives into our schools and communities, and infuse healthy attitudes surrounding menstruation into our culture's consciousness." Featuring many tampon send-back actions, the collecting of extensive resources, ...speakers on this topic ..., countless workshops at conferences, community centers and schools.
www.spotsite.org
Great resource for powerful articles on the toxic feminine protection industry
www.onewoman.com
excellent site for info about menstruation that goes beyond the physiology. the site to share with our girls
www.mum.com
Museum of Menstruation. All you'd want to know about the history of menstruation and more.
www.menstruation.com.au
An Australian site with an unabashed alternative perspective. Lots of practical info but still some info from the 'women's health as deficit" perspective.
Books and Publications
menstruation
*101 ways to celebrate menstruation by Kami McBride.
Kami has mixed grandma advice and millennium reality with flourish, to create a collection of ideas that inspire and challenge us. With so many options, no more excuses for neglecting yourself. Delicious and tender.
www.livingawareness.com Also check out her wonderfully woman-nurturing website.
*mother-daughter wisdom by Christine Northrop
Christine seems to channel the mother we all want and want to be. An invaluable tomb embodying guidance on everything - from menstruation to finance to how to hold yourself in the world. For moms and/and/or daughters and more.
*red flower: rethinking menstruation by Dena Taylor
*her blood is gold by Lara Owen
*the curse by Karen Houpert
*the wise wound by Penelope shuttle and Peter Redgrove
*blood, bread, and roses. How menstruation created the world by Judy Grahn
Moonflow Magazine www.moonflowpower.com a magazine about our menstrual experience
women's health
*women's bodies, women's wisdom by Christine Northrop
Also mother-daughter wisdom (see above)
*the new our bodies, ourselves by the Boston women's health book collective
"women, sex and desire" elizabeth davis
*herbal healing for women by Rosemary Gladstar
*the roots of healing: a woman's book of herbs by Deb Soule
*women’s herbs, women’s health by Christopher Hobbs and Kathi Keville
menarche
*Becoming Peers - Mentoring Girls into Womanhood by DeAnna L'am
"A gem of a book! This is the first book I've seen that provides
support, direction, and encouragement explicitly for mothers and other
women attempting to foster confidence and joy in their girls during the
momentous transition from girlhood to womanhood. The simple rituals and
sensible suggestions offered in this book are touching and heartfelt."
Vicki Noble, co-creator of Motherpeace Tarot; author of Shakti Woman:
Feeling Our
Fire, Healing Our World, and The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power
Having recently walked the walk of a mom of a menarche girl, I cannot recommend enough:
*The Seven Sacred Rites of Menarche: The Spiritual Journey of the Adolescent Girl by Kristi Meisenbach Boylan.
It is a very insightful look at the reality that is our girls’ lives, especially helpful when we can’t remember the subtleties of that time.
*girls like us edited by Gina Misiroglu (not about menarche directly but delightful to share with our girls)
And because we love our sons and want them to be fantastic partners:
*Raising Cain: protecting the emotional life of boys, by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
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