The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation
- ISBN-10
- 0374273669
- ISBN-13
- 9780374273668
- Series
- The Curse
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Pages
- 263
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-01-01
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Karen Houppert
Description
A reporter for The Village Voice sheds light on the embarrassed secrecy with which American culture treats menstruation and demonstrates the detrimental impact such an attitude has on women's physical and psychological health. 10,000 first printing.
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- 2000-05-24
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