Books : Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World
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by: Judy Grahn
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9780807075050
ISBN: 0807075051
Label: Beacon Press
Manufacturer: Beacon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: October 31, 1994
Publisher: Beacon Press
Sales Rank: 876029
Studio: Beacon Press
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Product Description:
'Blood, Bread, and Roses' reclaims women's myths and stories, chronicling the ways in which women's actions and the teaching of myth have interacted over the millenia. Grahn argues that culture has been a weaving between the genders, a sharing of wisdom derived from menstruation. Her rich interpretations of ancient menstrual rites give us a new and hopeful story of culture's beginnings based on the integration of body, mind, and spirit found in women's traditions. 'Blood, Bread, and Roses' offers all of us a way back to understanding the true meaning of women's menstraul power.
Foreword by Charlene Spretnak
'[Grahn's] intriguing excursion through folklore, myth, religion, anthropology and history bespeaks a feminist conviction that male origin stories must be balanced by a recognition of women's central role in shaping civilization.'
-Publishers Weekly
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Empowerment for women
I am reading this book and so far I'm loving it. It has reminded me of how important women were, are and always will be for our society. It's a shame we sometimes let the men underestimate us.
Rating: - Life-changing
Dr. Grahn's book was way ahead of its time. Both thought-provoking and transformational, she gives us nothing less than a new origin story in which women are at the center, without relegating men to the fringe. I highly recommend this book as well as the New College of California journal Metaformia: A Journal of Menstruation and Culture, www.metaformia.com. Page One describes how this theory returns women to a crucial place in cultural origin stories, in our histories, in our rituals, in our religions, ... Read More
Rating: - Fear of a Red Nation
The first time I picked up this book I got to the part about menstruation being the inspiration for chairs, and like another reviewer here, thought Grahn's ideas way out there and put the book aside. Fast forward five years and it makes a lot more sense to me. Grahn is a poet and relates a world before there was language, when what would become humans lived in trees and struggled day to day along side the other animals. Grahn posits that the correlation of the female menstrual cycle with the cycle of the moon ... Read More
Rating:  - Misinformation and blatant lies
This book is filled with not only misinformation, but also blatant lies. The author claims the practice of wearing shoes came from traditions of women in certain areas of the world not touching the ground with their bare feet while menstruating; it didn't have ANYTHING to do with people wanting to protect their feet against rocks and cold according to the author. She makes similar claims about utensils coming into use because of taboos regarding menstruating women scratching themselves with their hands, again ... Read More
Rating:  - I did love the history of the book!
But the thing I think it didn't contain as much of is relating to the title of the book. Don't get me wrong, I learned alot about being a weemon, but I still was looking for more of a book on the ways it creates the world, not random facts, etc. Or random coincidences.
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