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Non-Fiction
Allen, Paula Gunn.
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. Boston, 1986.
Thomas Buckley, ed.; Alma Gottlieb, ed.
Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation. University of California Press, 1988.
Cameron, Anne.
Daughters of Copper Woman. Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1981.
Caputi, Jane.
Gossips, Gorgons & Crones: The Fates of the Earth. Santa Fe, 1993
Chernin, Kim,
Reinventing Eve: Modern Woman in Search of Herself. New York, 1987
Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton and Emily Toth.
The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Ophira Edut, ed.
Adios Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity. Seattle: Seal Press, 1998.
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Riane Eisler.
The Chalice & the Blade: Our History, Our Future. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1987.
Eliade, Mircea.
Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth. New York, 1958
Eve Ensler.
The Vagina Monologues. New York: Villard Books, 1998.
Judy Grahn.
Blood, Bread and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.
Houppert, Karen.
The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo, Menstruation. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1999.
K. Wind Hughes and Linda Wolf.
Daughter of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women & Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood.
Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.
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Andrea Johnston.
Girls Speak Out: Finding Your True Self. New York: Scholastic Press, 1997.
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Chris Knight.
Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture. Yale University Press, 1995.
Lincoln, Bruce.
Emerging from the Chrysalis: Studies in Rituals of Women's Initiation. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981.
Bunny McCune and Deb Traunstein.
Girls to Women, Women to Girls. Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 1998.
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Inga Muscio.
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence. Seattle: Seal Press, 1998.
Vicki Noble.
Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World: The New Female Shamanism. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1991.
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing. New York: Bantam Books, 1994.
Kathleen O'Grady, ed.; Paula Wansbrough, ed.
Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation. Second Story Press, 1997.
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Perera, Sylvia Brinton. Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women. Toronto. 1981
Quintero, Nita, "Coming of Age the Apache Way", essay appearing in
I’m On My Way Running: Women Speak on Coming of Age,
edited by Lyn Reese, Jean Wilkinson and Phyllis Sheon Koppelman, 1983
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Sara Shandler.
Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search For Self. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999.
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Sjoo, Monica & Mor, Barbara.
The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth. San Francisco, 1987.
Marcia Starck.
Women’s Medicine Ways: Cross-Cultural Rites of Passage. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1993.
Dena Taylor.
Red Flower: Rethinking Menstruation. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1988.
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Luisah Teish.
Jambalya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985.
Barbara Walker.
The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983.
Rebecca Walker, ed.
To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism. New York: Anchor Books, 1995.
Washbourn, Penelope. "Becoming Woman: Menstruation as Spiritual Challenge," essay appearing in
Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion,
edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, San Francisco, 1979. Pg. 251.
Wolf, Naomi.
The Beauty Myth. New York, 1991.
Woodman, Marion.
The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation. Toronto. 1985.
Fiction
Crysta Kinstler.
The Moon Under Her Feet: The Story of Mari Magdalene in the Service of the Great Mother.
San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1989.
Mary Mackey.
The Year the Horses Came. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1993.
Lara Owen.
Her Blood Is Gold: Celebrating the Power of Menstruation. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1993.
Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove.
The Wise Wound: Myths, Realities, and Meanings of Menstruation. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.
Jyotsna Sreenivasan.
The Moon Over Crete. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 1994.
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Starhawk.
The Fifth Sacred Thing. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.
Barbara Walker.
Feminist Fairy Tales. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1996.
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