New: Peitho Summer 2025 Issue: Menstrual Rhetorics and Girlhood Culture

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The Peitho Editorial Team is proud to announce the publication of the summer 2025 issue, guest-edited by Jen Almjeld and Sarah Hagelin. The topic of the issue is Menstrual Rhetorics and Girlhood Culture, and Almjeld and Hagelin write:

This issue is a scholarly contribution to these sorts of discussions centered on girls and periods. The issue features eight articles that consider girlhood and menstruation from a variety of perspectives: in young adult literature, in online teen magazines, in healthcare, in activism, and as deeply personal, embodied experience. We see this issue creating space to talk seriously, critically, and from multiple perspectives about an experience steeped in cultural and political misunderstanding and misrepresentation.

The articles in this issue blend personal reflection with scholarly analysis to discuss menstruation among trans youth, in Gaza, among youth with eating disorders, representations of menstruation in media, and more.




Cover Art: At the top is a black bar with the following text in a serif font: “Summer 2025,” “Peitho,” and “Vol. 27.4.” Underneath that are the words “Menstrual Rhetorics” in a large handwriting font (white with light turquoise offset), and under that, “and Girlhood Culture” in a light orange font. On the right side of the image is an assemblage of red flowers on a menstrual pad. On the left side, a circle with two dark coral drops in the middle and a # sign at the top of the circle. Toward the bottom of the image is a calendar with drops on specific dates indicating a menstrual period. At the bottom of the image are the words “PERIOD power,” and “Talking periods for and with all bodies that menstruate.”

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