The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman

This groundbreaking 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, the authors illustrate their theories using examples ranging from the Bible to such modern horrors as vampire movies and cult film The Exorcist.

'The first accessible book about menstruation as a human reality...entirely praiseworthy' The Sunday Times. Originally published in 1978, The Wise Wound was the first book to discuss menstruation and became a bestseller that remains as relevant today as when it initially appeared.