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The curse : a cultural history of menstruation
- Author
- Delaney, Janice.
- Title
- The curse : a cultural history of menstruation / Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton, Emily Toth ; with new afterwords by Mary Jane Lupton and Janice Delaney.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- Rev. ed., 1st Univ. of ill. Press ed.
- Published
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1988.
- Description
- xv, 334 pages ; 24 cm
- Other contributors
- Lupton, Mary Jane. Toth, Emily.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-315) and index.
- Contents
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- Women in the closet: taboos of exclusion
- "Not tonight, dear": taboos of sex
- Putting her in her place: rites of the menarche
- Woman unclean: menstrual taboos in Judaism and Christianity
- Menstruation and medical myth
- Modern menstrual politics
- The menstrual process
- The first pollution: psychoanalysis and the menarche
- The storm before the calm: the premenstrual syndrome
- "What every girl should know"
- The monthly euphemism
- Red humor: the menstrual joke
- Periodic parade: menstruation in advertising
- Rags to riches: the menstrual products industry
- Menstruation goes public.
- The bleeding tower: menstrual themes in fairy tales
- Absent literature: the menarche
- The miracle of blood: menstrual imagery in myth and poetry
- Menstrual madness in drama and fiction
- From leeches to estrogen: the menopause and medical options
- Psychology and the menopausal menace
- "November of the body": the menopause and literature
- The menstrual hall of fame
- Moving the menses, or vicarious menstruation
- Escaping the monthlies
- Saignade: simulated menstruation in the male
- Cycles and rhythm in men
- Conclusion: Lifting the curse.
- Subject headings
- Menstruation--Miscellanea. Menstruation--Public opinion.
- Kinsey subjects
- Menstruation Reproductive myths and fallacies. Climacteric --Female.