The Curse
A Cultural History of Menstruation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11085529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pauline B Bart (corresponding author), J Dennis Delaney, Emily Troth |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 139 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation, Emily Toth, 1976 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2064978 |
| OpenAlex | W1964789819 |
| Language | EN |
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 stimulating and useful book, both for the scholarly and the general reader. -- Paula A. Treichler, co-author of A Feminist Dictionary
Curse · Menstruation · Sociology · Anthropology · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Menstrual Health and Disorders
Cauldron of Changes
(Con)textualizing Toxic Shock Syndrome
The Cartography of Memory
Declining of Tuloni Biya
Visualizing Shame
Female trouble
Smoothing down ruffled feathers
Unnecessary bleeding, unnecessary suffering
Agency and the Body in Adolescent Menstrual Talk
Menarche and the (Hetero)sexualization of the Female Body
Not a 'Real' Period
The Problematic of 'Experience
An anthropological view of western women's prodigious fasting
Ending Women's Greatest Hygienic Mistake
Early Menarche
Student learning and the menstrual cycle
Some Interpersonal Aspects of Self‐Mutilation in a Borderline Patient
An Issue of Blood
Mothers and Their Adolescent Daughters
Los viejos caminos y las nuevas posibilidades
The Reciprocal Paradigm of Tafsīr al-Miṣbah and Tafsīr al-Taḥrīr wa al-Tanwīr on Surah al-Baqarah verse 222 about Menstruation Blood
Examining the Impact of the Advancements in Nineteenth Century Neuroscience on Drama
Bad Girls and Fallen Women
A Kotex and a Smile
Working Practices of the Menopause Clinic
Pornography, Men Possessing Women
Scripting the Body
Menstruation as a Verbal Taboo among the Akan of Ghana
Genesis in Buli
Manhood, Femaleness, and Power
Body Concepts
"When a Woman "Becomes a Dog
Periods and the Menstrualscape
Briefing Paper
The Three Faces of PMS
Wooing Werewolves
On Menopause and Cyborgs
Gender and Health
That Time of Month
La naturalisation de la ménopause
Introduction
Aportes a una antropología feminista de la salud
We Found the Witch, May We Burn Her?”
Say no to shame, waste, inequality—and leaks! Menstrual activism in the market for alternative period products
Equality with Difference
Breaking the Silences about Non-hetero Female Sexuality in Saghi Ghahraman's Poetry
Woman as birth‐and‐death‐giver in folk tradition
Elissa Stein and Susan Kim. Flow
Menstruation, Misogyny, and the Cure for Love
Bloody Mary in the Mirror
Sexual Activity During Menstruation
Cycles of shame
The Menstrual Cycle and Student Learning
Lactation and Menstruation in Cultural Perspective
This is a natural process’
Meaning in absence
Integrating feminist theory and women's studies into the women's health nursing curriculum
An energetics-based approach to understanding the menstrual cycle and menopause
Accepting `Total and Complete Responsibility
Women wearing white
It’s not all bad
Never Innocent
Bleeding out Loud
Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery
Should `Premenstrual Syndrome' be Called a Psychiatric Abnormality
Catherine Breillat's Romance and Anatomy of Hell
Memories of menarche
Menstrual time
The politics of Premenstrual Syndrome
Repunctuated Feminism
Leakey Performances
Selling Sarafem
Psychosocial and Cultural Factors Influencing Expectations of Menarche
The extended curse
The portrayal of the menstruating woman in menstrual product advertisements
Young Women's Attitudes Toward Continuous Use of Oral Contraceptives
From Convenience to Hazard
Virginity and tampons
Analyzing emergent issues in women's health
Sociocultural Attitudes Surrounding Menstruation and Alternative Menstrual Products
Sex role orientation, sex typing, occupational traditionalism, and perimenstrual symptoms
The Implications of Objectification Theory for Women's Health
Menstrual attitudes, beliefs, and symptom experiences of adolescent females, their peers, and their mothers
Expectations About Menstruation Among Premenarcheal Girls
Gender, space and power
Feminine Protection”
The Meaning and Experience of Female Sexuality
Leaks, Lumps, and Lines
Menstrual Joy
The Menstrual Joy Questionnaire Items Alone Can Positively Prime Reporting of Menstrual Attitudes and Symptoms
The Social Stigma of Menstruation
Distancing Through Objectification? Depictions of Women’s Bodies in Menstrual Product Advertisements
Mentioning Menstruation
It's all in your head
Time of the Month” on Twitter
The Function of Ethnicity, Income Level, and Menstrual Taboos in Postmenarcheal Adolescents’ Understanding of Menarche and Menstruation
Bodies at Menarche
Our Revolution Has Style”
The Menstrual Mark
Normal and Natural, or Burdensome and Terrible? Women with Spinal Cord Injuries Discuss Ambivalence about Menstruation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |