Fourteen million Americans can’t be wrong
Katha Pollitt: Menstruation, 6 September 2001
The Curse: Confronting the Last Taboo, Menstruation
by Karen Houppert.
Profile, 261 pp., £6.99, April 2000,1 86197 212 1 Show More
by Karen Houppert.
Profile, 261 pp., £6.99, April 2000,
“... inquiry into the ‘hush’ she believes surrounds the subject of menstruation in America, Karen Houppert thinks about her reluctance to discuss the subject of her book with the men she knows. ‘I tell them I’m writing a book. If they pursue the matter, I tell them that I’m working on a book about menstruation – never “periods”, because ... ”