Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation (37 page)
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Authors: Elissa Stein,Susan Kim
Tags: #Health; Fitness & Dieting, #Women's Health, #General, #History, #Historical Study & Educational Resources, #Politics & Social Sciences, #Women's Studies, #Personal Health, #Social History, #Women in History, #Professional & Technical, #Medical eBooks, #Basic Science, #Physiology
Last, our tremendous thanks to the many women who thoughtfully answered our questions about their embarrassing, hilarious, scary, curious, confusing, frustrating, and gleeful experiences with menstruation and menopause.
ELISSA STEIN is a published author whose work includes visual histories of iconic pop culture, New York City adventures with kids, and interactive thank-you notes. In addition to writing, she runs her own graphic design business. To balance the above, she practices yoga, knits with enthusiasm, and collects vintage coats. She lives in New York City with her husband, Jon, and their children, Izzy and Jack.
As a playwright, SUSAN KIM wrote the stage adaptation of The Joy Luck Club (Dramatists Play Service) and numerous one-acts, which have been produced widely. She is a Writers Guild award-winning TV writer in documentary and children’s programming, and has been nominated five times for the Emmy. With her boyfriend, novelist and playwright Laurence Klavan, she wrote two graphic novels, Circle of Spies and The Fielding Course (First Second Books). She teaches dramatic writing in the MFA program of Goddard College and lives in New York City with Klavan.
FLOW. Copyright © 2009 by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y 10010.
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eISBN 9781429983396
First eBook Edition : January 2012
Production manager: Adriana Coada
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stein, Elissa.
Flow: the cultural story of menstruation / Elissa Stein and Susan Kim.—1st ed. p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-37996-4
1. Menstruation—Social aspects. I. Title. II. Kim, Susan, 1958—.
QP263 .S73 2009
612.6’62—dc22
2009017046
First Edition: November 2009
Table of Contents
Chapter 3 - SO HOW DID WE GET HERE?
Chapter 9 - THE SCENT OF A WOMAN
Chapter 10 - SO NOW YOU’RE A WOMAN!
Chapter 12 - WHEN GOOD PERIODS GO BAD