The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman - Softcover

Penelope Shuttle; Peter Redgrove

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714534056 ISBN 13: 9780714534053

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Explores the historical and cultural legacy of this repression, from its effects on the way medicine treats women to the displaced appearance of menstrual imagery at all levels of our culture. Combining psychology, anthropology and poetry, the authors reinterpret the central myths of Christianity, including the Grail legends, and see the witch trials of the Middle Ages as a symptom of menstrual persecution.

About this title

Synopsis:

'Answers many of the questions that one had never thought or dared to ask' - from the foreword by Margaret Drabble This ground-breaking 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 cult film The Exorcist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0714534056
• ISBN 13: 9780714534053
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364