Menstrual Suppression as Global Cultural Norm: Female Hormonal Mutilation?

"This book's conception of menstruation is perhaps another example of the medically "immutable" rendered healthfully under the control of individual women."

-- "Is Menstruation Obsolete?", page xi, Kate Miller, M.P.H., University of Pennsylvania (and also former employee of The Population Council)

"With the cooperation and supervision of their physicians, women would use currently available means to stop menstruation for several months and, growing more confident, would lengthen the menstruation-free interval. As the benefits become evident, other women would be encouraged to try this procedure and medical researchers would be motivated to find more advanced methods to control menstruation. This would forge a major advance in women's health, led by women...." "Is Menstruation Obsolete?", pages 163-164.

-- Dr. Elsimar Coutinho

-- From the USAID Intra-Agency Working Group on FGC Final Report, "Female Genital Cutting: The Facts and the Myths," FGC Symposium, June 3, 1999.

-- From "Menopausal Zest and Twisted Confusion

-- The Experiences of Women in Taiwan"

by Chueh Chang, Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Researcher, Women's Research Program, National Taiwan University, Taipai, Taiwan; Society for Menstrual Cycle Research member.

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