Why suffer? : periods and their problems

by Lynda Birke, Katy Gardner

Menstruation disorders

80 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1980

About the author

LYNDA BIRKE is a feminist biologist who has written extensively on the connections between feminism and science. She is the co-founder of two feminist groups and author of several bookps including Women, Feminism and Biology: The Feminist Challenge; Feminism, Animals and Science: The Naming of the Shrew; Rethinking Biology: Respect for Life and the Creation of Knowledge (co-edited with Ruth Hubbard);and, Common Science? Women, Science and Knowledge (with Jean Barr).