PridePads Summer Reading List: Period Edition
Are you headed on vacation and looking for some insightful reading? Are you hoping to learn more about menstrual equity and justice? Do you have a kiddo who is soon to embark on their own menstruation journey? We have the reading list for you!
For Teens and Tweens:
- Blooming Girl: My First Period Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Your Menstrual Cycle – E.A Onah
- Go With the Flow: A Friendship Story. Period. – Karen Schneemann
- We Need to Talk About Vaginas: An IMPORTANT Book About Vulvas, Periods, Puberty, and Sex! – Dr. Allison K. Rodgers
- Dr. Cuterus: Everything Nobody Tells You About Your Body –Tanaya Narendra
Quick Reads for Adults:
- Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity – Jennifer Weiss Wolf
- Period. End of Sentence. A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice – Anita Diamant
- Glossary for the Global Menstrual Movement – Period. and Thinx
Academic-Style Reading:
- The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies (open source)
- Chapters 14, 17, 20, 25, 31 are particularly relevant
- New Blood: Third-Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation
- “Menstrual Health: A Definition for Policy, Practice, and Research.” – Hennegan et al.
- “Understanding Menstrual Health Management and Human Rights.” – Human Rights Watch.HRW.org. New York, New York.: Human Rights Watch, 2017.
- “Inclusion of Menstrual Health in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.” – The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.
- “Comfortably, Safely, and Without Shame: Defining Menstrual Hygiene Management as a Public Health Issue.” – Sommer et al
Do you have other menstrual health and hygiene favorite reads? Send us your recommendations for a chance to be featured in a future newsletter!
Together we will educate and empower all those who menstruate.