About the Book: “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