Be Period Positive: Reframe Your Thinking and Reshape the Future of Menstruation

by Chella Quint

Overview

Period positivity starts with asking questions.

This informative, irreverent, and absorbing book covers all your period-related questions - why they're taboo (and needn't be) and how to navigate the whole bleeding thing, from first periods to fertility, euphemisms to uteruses, menstrual products to menopause.

Period Positive movement founder and menstrual researcher Chella Quint's answers are frank, funny, and fascinating.

Let's get period positive. It's about bloody time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780744033755
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	08/24/2021
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	1,090,564
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Chella Quint is a designer, writer, performer and period educator, originally from Brooklyn, New York, and now based in Sheffield. She originally worked as a drama and PSHE teacher before becoming one of the UK's top experts on menstruation education. Her solo shows, public engagement projects, design installations and print zine, "Adventures in Menstruating", have inspired and informed adults and children alike in the UK and internationally; her zines are sold in the US and she has performed at events and festivals in the US, Europe, and Ireland. Chella is the founder of the Period Positive movement and the hashtag #periodpositive, an initiative which challenges menstrual taboos and combats period poverty, and has more recently launched the Period Positive Pledge, a global framework designed to help governments develop menstruation-inclusive policies and outreach - this initiative has now expanded beyond the UK to include a network of Global Champions in countries including the US, Canada, Kenya, Germany and India. Chella has frequently contributed to national print media and radio as well as having her work cited in both popular non-fiction books and academic works. She has worked with a number of charities and NGOs including Plan UK and WaterAid. A founding member of the Menstruation Research Network (now The Ending Period Poverty Network) and a current member of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, she is currently researching a PhD at the prestigious Lab4Living institute for design and health - her research explores taboos around lifecycle changes (including menarche and menopause) and their impact on product design and consumer agency.

Table of Contents

Foreword 06

Introduction 08

History 12

Period positivity 28

Blood 44

Hormones 84

Fertility and contraception 110

Perimenopause and menopause 140

Bibliography 154

Index 157

About the author and consultant and Acknowledgments 160