The Curse"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