Comments on: Contribute to Blank’s new Menstruation book! http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/12/contribute-to-blanks-new-menstruation-book/ periods, politics & personalities Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:38:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Sara http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/12/contribute-to-blanks-new-menstruation-book/#comment-156 Sara Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:20:14 +0000 http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/12/contribute-to-blanks-new-menstruation-book/#comment-156 "But except for coming-of-age stories and the occasional Stephen King novel, all this spilled blood hardly creates a blip on the cultural radar." Not true: see Karen Houppert's "The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation" and Elizabeth Kissling's "Capitalizing on the Curse: The Business of Menstruation". Also, Houppert's essay in the Village Voice in 1995 caused lots of people to take notice. I'll probably still submit something anyway :-) “But except for coming-of-age stories and the occasional Stephen King novel, all this spilled blood hardly creates a blip on the cultural radar.”

Not true: see Karen Houppert’s “The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation” and Elizabeth Kissling’s “Capitalizing on the Curse: The Business of Menstruation”. Also, Houppert’s essay in the Village Voice in 1995 caused lots of people to take notice.

I’ll probably still submit something anyway :-)

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