Own your period

Chella Quint

Book - 2021

Quint started the Period Positive movement to improve menstrual literacy. Her fact-filled guide to periods answers all your essential questions, and provides positive and honest advice to help girls and young women form a healthy, positive relationship with their bodies. She also includes practical information about menstrual products, tracking cycles, and more. -- adapted from front flap and back cover

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Subjects
Genres
Young adult nonfiction
Published
Mission Viejo, CA : QEB Publishing, an imprint of the Quarto Group 2021.
Language
English
Main Author
Chella Quint (author)
Other Authors
Giovana Medeiros (illustrator)
Physical Description
95 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 95) and index.
ISBN
9780711256644
  • Hello from Chella
  • Who is this book for?
  • The basics. Periods and puberty ; What's a vulva? ; Inside your body ; Periods and hormones ; Menstrual cycle phases ; Life cycle of a period ; Having babies?!? ; Period stats
  • Managing periods. What do periods look like? ; What do periods feel like? ; Charting your cycle ; All about discharge ; When periods are a pain ; Asking for help ; Maintaining good period health ; Menstrual supplies ; Sustainability ; Worrying about stains and odor
  • Period positivity. Menstrual shame ; Busting myths and slaying superstitions ; Media messages: a timeline ; Being a period positive consumer ; Talking about periods ; Navigating periods at school ; Share the Period Positive Pledge ; Own it!