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Menstrual Synchrony, Thirty Years Later: Tearing Down the
Frozen Waterfall
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“Menstrual
synchrony is a difficult phenomenon to demonstrate, its occurrence among women
remains uncertain, or at least unpredictable, and if it does exist, its
functional significance remains unclear.”
-- from “Methods for Obtaining Menstrual Cycle
Data in Menstrual Synchrony Studies, Reply to Schank (2001),” Cynthia A. Graham
“…daring
and brawn tear down the frozen waterfall, the past…”
-- from “Skunk Cabbage,” “American Primitive,” Mary Oliver
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1. The WMBS Phenomenon: “We Must Be Synchronizing!”
2. Menstrual Cycle as Rhythm:
Problem…and Opportunity
A. Problem: Rhythms Whose
Periods Are Noninteger Multiples of Each Other Are Only Capable of
Hypodivergence, Not Synchrony
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B.
Opportunity: Rubymusyk as
Musical Genre…Will MTV Someday See Red?
Menstrual Monday Concerts
3. The Experts Do Not Agree. But What Exactly Are the Experts
Disagreeing About?
A. Cycle Length
Variability
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B. Random Groups
Method
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C. Slight Increase
in Asynchrony
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D. Mutual Exchange
of Information
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4.
Three Examples of Menstrual Synchrony Used to Look Into the Past
A. “Menstrual Synchrony
and the “Place of Women”
In Ancient
Egypt,” Terry G. Wilfong
B. “How
Menstruation Changed the World,”
Judy
Grahn
C. “Query
Letter to Rolling Stone Magazine,”
Geneva Kachman
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5. One Example of Menstrual Synchrony Used to Interpret the Present
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6. The Theory of Menstrual
Synchrony: Result of Human Need for
Coincidence?
7. Menstrual Overlap: A
Source of Menstrual Camaraderie?
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