The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation

adolescent Afterword American associated attitudes become believe birth bleeding body called cancer castration cause century Chapter child cramps cultural Curse dangerous daughter death defloration disease doctor estrogen experience fear feel female Feminine feminist film flowers Freud genitals girls Health hormonal husband images intercourse taboo Journal Kotex literature lives male Mary menarche menopause menses menstrual blood menstrual cycle menstrual extraction menstrual flow menstrual jokes menstrual period menstrual process menstrual taboos menstruating woman monthly moon mother myth novel pain Penelope Shuttle penis percent physical poem Premenstrual Syndrome Premenstrual Tension primitive progesterone psychoanalytic psychological puberty Puberty Rites rhythms ritual sanitary napkins seclusion sexual society story strual struation subincision suicide symbol symptoms Tampax tampons Tassaway tells theory therapy tion toxic shock syndrome treatment Truly Tasteless Jokes unclean uterus vaginal vicarious menstruation wife witch womb women writes York young