The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation.

In its hard headed, richly documented concreteness, it is worth a thousand polemics. -- New York Times, from a review of the first edition The Curse deserves a place in every women's studies library collection. -- Sharon Golub, editor of Lifting the curse of Menstruation stimulating and useful book, both for the scholarly and the general reader. -- Paula A. Treichler, co-author of A Feminist Dictionary