"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