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13th Jun

Vaginas, Wombs and Menstruation

A Tetw reading list

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The New Full-Frontal by Ashley Fetters -  Has Pubic Hair in America Gone Extinct?

Snip, stitch, kerching! by Marie Myung-Ok Lee - A look at designer vagina surgeries and the questionable motives of the doctors who perform them.

We Do Abortions Here by Sallie Tisdale - A nurse at an abortion clinic describes her work.

The Sanguine Sex by Caitlin Flanagan - “Abortion and the bloodiness of being female.”

John Rock’s Error by Malcolm Gladwell - How the fallacy of a natural monthly cycle was used to help the contraceptive pill find acceptance, but may endanger women’s health.

In the Red Tent by Lindy West - Find out what goes on at a celebration of menstruation.

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