See art by Mayra Alpízar | Carlota Berard | Jennifer Boe | Roz Bonnet | Luiza Brown | Nikoline Calcaterra | Judy Chicago | Selin Cileli | Maldoror Capvt Corvi | Maribel Cruz | Thomasin Durgin | Natalie Aniela Dybisz | Elvira | Anne Encephalon | Hélène Epaud | Quiara Z. Escobar | Fanni Fazekas | Pat Fish | Julie Gaw | Gina | Kat Grandy | Martina Hoffmann (1 & 2) | Jelena | Judy Jones | Margaret Kalms | Brina Katz | Lorraine Lamothe | Ria Lee | Sharon Lee | Lana Leitch | Carol Nathan Levin | Katy Luxion | Sarah McCutcheon | Isa Menzies | Megan Morris | M. Parfitt | Petra Paul | Ana Elena Pena | Melina Piroso | Elentye Paulauskas-Poelker | Leigh Radtke | Jacquelyn Rixon | Isa Sanz | Vladislav Shabalin | Nelson Soucasaux | Paula Speakman | Alexandra Steiner | Melina Szapiro | Von Taylor | Jean Tracy | Joseph Tonna | Jessica Wagner | Jennifer Weigel | Terry Wunderlich | Tamara Wyndham | New Guinea menstrual hut carving Art of Menopause by Coni Minneci Ancient Peruvian menstrual art If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause and are interested in showing it on thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM Marie Claire magazine (Italian edition) featured several of the above artists in an article about this museum and menstruation in 2003. The newspaper Corriere della Sera (Io Donna magazine) (Milan, Italy) and the magazine Dishy (Turkey) showed some of the artists in 2005 in articles about this museum. HOMEPAGE CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could? Some MUM site links: HOMEPAGE | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | Email the museum | Privacy on this site | Who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) | Artists (non-menstrual) | Asbestos | Belts | Bidets | Birth control and religion | Birth control drugs, old | Birth control douche & sponges | Founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) | Cats | Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | Contraception and religion | Contraceptive drugs, old | Contraceptive douche & sponges | Costumes | Menstrual cups | Cup usage | Dispensers | Douches, pain, sprays | Essay directory | Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) | Extraction | Facts-of-life booklets for girls | Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory | Founder/director biography | Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | Humor | Huts | Links | Masturbation | Media coverage of MUM | Menarche booklets for girls and parents | Miscellaneous | Museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | Odor | Olor | Pad, towel, napkin directory | Patent medicine | Poetry directory | Products, some current | Puberty booklets for girls and parents| Religion | Religión y menstruación | Your remedies for menstrual discomfort | Menstrual products safety | Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | Science | Shame | Slapping, menstrual | Sponges | Synchrony | Tampon directory | Early tampons | Teen ads directory | Tour of the former museum (video) | Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory | Underpants & panties directory | Videos, films directory | Words and expressions about menstruation | Would you stop menstruating if you could? | What did women do about menstruation in the past? | Washable pads | Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site. Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación. The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health "Shove it!" 2001 Bronze, approx. 1 meter x 0.30 meter Isa Menziest writes, Basically I loved the idea of creating a giant tampon out of bronze - tampons (and all other sanitary products) in Australia attracted a "luxury tax" (which has now been replaced by the GST); by creating this most 'luxurious' of items (HA!) in bronze I guess I wanted to have a bit of a dig at that. I also think that in this allegedly "post-feminist" era we need to seriously examine the ways we are manipulated - with all its marketing-generated connotations of freedom, the word "tampon" actually means "plug." The idea of celebrating aspects of feminine culture - especially the once taboo subject of menstruation - is also a key theme. It doesn't have to be loaded with political significance, though - it appeals most to one's sense of humour - and it always gets a reaction!! I myself am a "mature-age" student (big deal - that just means I'm over the age of 21!) at the University of Western Sydney, where I am in my second year studying social ecology. Creativity in all its forms is my passion, and sometimes it's unleashed in the form of art works like "Shove it!" When I grow up I want to change the world. And later she added, Yup, it is bronze - not solid; it has an inner core of refractory material (the stuff we use to make molds for casting), but it weighs twenty kilograms nonetheless!! It's not HUGE - the body would be about 50 cms long, and the tail maybe twice that - but the tail is detachable, so you can arrange it however. Sorry, I don't have it here so I can't give you exact measurements. I would love to make a huge one, like with a body of over a metre. Hm . . . . (!) NEXT artist: Megan Morris See all the artists in the links in the left-hand column. If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause and are interested in showing it on these pages (it's free!), contact MUM © 2001 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org