num_pages: 352
description: "Blood, Bread, and Roses" reclaims women's myths and stories, chronicling the ways in which women's actions and the teaching of myth have interacted over the millenia. Grahn argues that culture has been a weaving between the genders, a sharing of wisdom derived from menstruation. Her rich interpretations of ancient menstrual rites give us a new and hopeful story of culture's beginnings based on the integration of body, mind, and spirit found in women's traditions. "Blood, Bread, and Roses" offers all of us a way back to understanding the true meaning of women's menstraul power.Foreword by Charlene Spretnak"[Grahn's] intriguing excursion through folklore, myth, religion, anthropology and history bespeaks a feminist conviction that male origin stories must be balanced by a recognition of women's central role in shaping civilization."-Publishers Weekly
language: English
title: Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World
titlecomplete: Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World
genres: History, Feminism, Womens, Gender Studies, Gender, Goddess, Academic, Cultural, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 111
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Studies
publisher: Beacon Pr