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 "A stimulating and useful book, both for the scholarly and the general reader." -- Paula A. Treichler, co-author of A Feminist Dictionary |
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Índice
Women in the Closet Taboos of Exclusion | 7 |
Not Tonight Dear Taboos of Sex | 18 |
Putting Her in Her Place Rites of the Menarche | 28 |
Woman Unclean Menstrual Taboos in Judaism and Christianity | 37 |
Menstruation and Medical Myth | 45 |
Modern Menstrual Politics | 54 |
The Menstrual Process | 69 |
The First Pollution Psychoanalysis and the Menarche | 73 |
Absent Literature The Menarche | 171 |
The Miracle of Blood Menstrual Imagery in Myth and Poetry | 186 |
Menstrual Madness in Drama and fiction | 200 |
From Leeches to Estrogen The Menopause and Medical Options | 213 |
Psychology and the Menopausal Menace | 220 |
November of the Body The Menopause and Literature | 225 |
The Menstrual Hall of Fame | 243 |
Moving the Menses or Vicarious Menstruation | 249 |
The Storm Before the Calm The Premenstrual Syndrome | 83 |
What Every Girl Should Know | 107 |
The Monthly Euphemism | 115 |
Red Humor The Menstrual Joke | 119 |
Periodic Parade Menstruation in Advertising | 129 |
Rags to Riches The Menstrual Products Industry | 138 |
Menstruation Goes Public | 151 |
The Bleeding Tower Menstrual Themes in Fairy Tales | 161 |
Escaping the Monthlies | 252 |
Saignade Simulated Menstruation in the Male | 261 |
Cycles and Rhythm in Men | 267 |
Lifting the Curse | 274 |
Notes | 283 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todo
The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation Janice Delaney,Mary Jane Lupton,Emily Toth Vista de fragmentos - 1988 |
The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation Janice Delaney,Mary Jane Lupton,Emily Toth Vista de fragmentos - 1976 |
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| Título | The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation Illini book |
| Autores | Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton, Emily Toth |
| Edición | revisada |
| Editor | University of Illinois Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0252014529, 9780252014529 |
| N.º de páginas | 334 páginas |
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