Kathryn B. H. Clancy

Kathryn Bridges Harley Clancy (born July 16, 1979) is an American Biological anthropology biological anthropologist, specializing in reproductive health. She has also done research and policy advocacy concerning sexual harassment in science and Academy academia. She is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Quotes The study of ovarian and endometrial functioning creates the opportunity to test questions regarding a trade-off that characterizes human pregnancy: close maternal-fetal contact to improve resource transmission, yet higher vulnerabilities to pathologies related to energetics and inflammation such as gestational diabetes and choriodecidual inflammatory syndrome. ; edited by Clancy, K.; Hinde, K.; Rutherford, J. Building Babies Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects, vol. 37 Inflammation, Reproduction, and the Goldilocks Principle by Kathry B. H. Clancy Springer New York 2012 978-1-4614-4059-8 10.1007/978-1-4614-4060-4_1 3–26 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-4060-4_1 The Real Story of Menstruation (2023) ... as an adolescent ... from the world around me, I learned that must I hide all signs that I menstruated or face deep, crushing shame. Preface Period: The Real Story of Menstruation Princeton University Press 2023 978-0-691-19131-7 https://books.google.com/books?id=JlCJEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR7 vii Menstruation is a wild process that should captivate and delight. It offers up so many lessons in terms of how we understand bodily autonomy, sexual selection, even tissue engineering. It is strange, then, that instead of being something so fundamental to science education as Mendel's peas or dinosaur bones or the planets of our solar system, it gets at best a brief mention in health class. Preface, p. ix A study in Taiwan found that, despite education programs on menstruation at school, the boys in the sample had a significantly worse attitude toward menstruation than the girls. ... An older study from the United States showed that men tended to think the majority of menstrual symptoms occurred during the menstrual phase, whereas women reported that they occurred during the premenstrual phase. Men also tended to think periods were more emotionally debilitating but less physically bothersome than women. ... Introduction. Taking the Mystery Out of Menstruation Period: The Real Story of Menstruation https://books.google.com/books?id=JlCJEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 2–3 External links Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Anthropologists from the United States Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Yale University alumni Category:Women scientists from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States