Period.: It's About Bloody Time

By Emma Barnett

Categories: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Politics & Social Sciences

In Period. (2019), broadcaster and journalist Emma Barnett sets out to end the stigma and silence around menstruation, starting from her own experience of endometriosis. Mixing personal stories, history and reporting, she looks at how periods are treated in families, schools, workplaces and politics, including the language used to avoid naming them, period poverty and medical neglect of conditions affecting women, and argues for talking about them openly.

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• Melinda French Gates: “@EmmaBarnett's #Period is an information-packed and hilarious book that aims to change the conversation about periods.”