Sport settings have long been documented as exclusionary environments for sexuality and
gender diverse (SAGD) people and a key location of discrimination. Sport is associated with …

Women's Lives integrates the most current research and social issues to explore the
psychological diversity of girls and women varying in age, ethnicity, social class, nationality …

Background Menstrual irregularity is defined as any differences in the frequency, irregularity
of onset, duration of flow, or volume of blood from the regular menstrual cycle. It is an …

Background Limited research exists on interest in and use of smoking cessation support in
pregnancy and postpartum. Methods A longitudinal cohort of pregnant smokers and recent …

South Africa (SA) has an estimated 7.7 million people living with HIV–the highest number of
any country globally; HIV remains the leading cause of death. Despite highly efficacious and …

Mental well-being is now an increasingly researched and discussed topic that primarily
involves taking care of mental health in a preventive manner and is more of a subjective …

It is obvious that current tools in literature that are used to measure female's sexual quality of
life focus only on the objective dimension of sexual function, failing to examine quality of life …

A review of UK physiology textbooks revealed that the menstrual cycle is almost universally
depicted as 'fluctuations in hormone levels'. This highly abstract and reductive model omits …

It is with great pleasure that that I take over the reins as Editor of WomenVs Reproductive
Health, the journal of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, continuing the pioneering …

Research in reproductive health is a rich, complex area of inquiry spanning diverse
disciplines, approaches, and topics. This chapter argues that critical research across …