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Author: Elizabeth Kissling

Elizabeth Kissling is a professor of women’s studies and of communication at Eastern Washington University, with interests in women’s health, sexuality, embodiment, and feminism. She is especially interested in how these issues are represented in entertainment media. She is the author of Capitalizing on the Curse: The Business of Menstruation and scholarly articles about communication and menstruation; body image and dieting; sexual harassment; and folklore surrounding menstruation and menarche.
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Dove’s Real Beauty Isn’t

Elizabeth Kissling

Dove released its latest video last Thursday in their now-decade-old Campaign for Real Beauty. But Dove’s ideas about Real Beauty are making me Real Tired and Real Crabby. Viewers are treated […]

  • Health

Yaz and Yasmin: An Unacceptable Level of Risk?

Elizabeth Kissling

Don’t feel bad if you missed last week’s headline news about the deaths of 23 young women from their birth control. It was a top story for CBC news and […]

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Of Menstruators and Manhole Covers

Elizabeth Kissling

Feminists of a certain age may recall debates about changing sexist language, and the ways feminists were once mocked for insisting on replacing sex-specific terms such as policeman with police […]

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Is PMS Overblown?

Elizabeth Kissling

If PMS is a myth, then what on earth can we blame for all the lady-rage? You may have seen the article in The Star or The Globe and Mail […]

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Yes, There’s Even an App for THAT: Menstruation and the Quantified Self

Elizabeth Kissling

Do you have a cell phone? Do you use apps to do things you used to do with paper and pen? Chances are, you do. Maybe you even use an […]

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The Million-Dollar Diet

Elizabeth Kissling

I learned this week of a new twist on college fundraising. Perhaps I should say twisted fundraising, as this scheme at Stephens College, a private women’s college in Columbia, Mo., […]

  • Voices

The Leap from Younger Puberty to Fat-Shaming

Elizabeth Kissling

When the story that girls are reaching puberty earlier than ever began popping up everywhere this week, I did not doubt its veracity. It was no coincidence that I received […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

Covered: New Documentary on Women and Tattoos

Elizabeth Kissling

What does it mean to be a tattooed woman in a culture that objectifies your body? In the new documentary Covered, Beverly Yuen Thompson has created an innovative, personal, honest […]

  • Health

A Pill for Men–Still Five Years Away

Elizabeth Kissling

The Internet, especially the feminist blogosphere, is all abuzz this week with the promise of a new contraceptive pill for men within the next five years. But researchers always say […]

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Where’d the Diaphragm Disappear To?

Elizabeth Kissling

Did you know that last year’s combined sales of Yaz and Yasmin, the most popular oral contraceptives in the U.S., totaled $1.64 billion? Did you know the drugs are also the […]

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