The Wise Wound - Menstruation and Everywoman

Penelope Shuttle, Peter Redgrover

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

2005

360 páginas

12h 0m

ISBN-10: 0714534056

This groundbreaking study of the facts, fantasies, and taboos surrounding menstruation has helped bring about a profound shift in attitudes toward a natural phenomenon that has been reviled and denigrated over the centuries. Thoroughly researched yet highly readable, combining psychology, anthropology, and poetry, Shuttle and Redgrove illustrate their theories using examples ranging from the Bible to such modern-day pop horrors as vampire movies and the cult film The Exorcist.