"Reclaiming the female body retrieving it piece by piece from the grip of patriarchal culture and medical practice, has been a central feminist goal for each of the last two decades. Menstruation-represented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by the American white middle and upper classes as a woman’s shame, her “curse,” as an agency of weakness and disability-is now front and center of the feminist agenda as topic that needs to be rethought."
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Anna Meigs, Thomas Buckley, Alma Gottlieb; “Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation”; Louise Lander, Images of Bleeding: Menstruation as Ideology, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Volume 16, Number 1, "From Hard Drive to Software: Gender, Computers, and Difference", (Autumn, 1990), p. 180.
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