Slate.com recently ran a nice feature article about the promise and danger of new pill regimes that end monthly menstruation. William Saletan rightly notes that the worries about controlling women’s menstruation and messing with that nature are largely overblown. After all, in what sense could we call monthly periods “natural,” anyway? Read the rest of this entry »
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Slate.com has an interesting write-up on a new technology, you know, the one making it possible to never menstruate again. Like the author, I’ll pass over the debate about the relation between womanhood, nature, and the body – not really my place to make a comment. Except this: I’m wary about the whole “keep technology off our bodies” rhetoric, not because of the politico-economic suspicions underlying the rhetoric (sound enough), but simply because technology is so deeply inside our bodies that we should talk more about boundaries than abolition. Rather, my main interest in this reflection is a familiar name: Jerry Falwell. What would Jerry think? Read the rest of this entry »