The wise wound
Subtitle: menustruation and everywoman
By: Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove ; foreword by Margaret Drabble.
Contributors: Redgrove, Peter.
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Menstrual cycle; Menstrual cycle -- Psychological aspects; Menstruation -- Folklore
Description: "This study of the facts, fantasies and taboos surrounding menstruation has helped bring about a profound shift in attitudes towards 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reprint. Previously published: London : Paladin Grafton Books, 1986.