Recent books reviewed or mentioned on this site
America's Strangest Museums by Sandra Gurvis (Citadel Press/Carol, 1996 [there
is a newer edition])
The Body Project by
Joan Jacobs Brumberg (Random House, 1997, $25; buy
it)
Co-wives and Calabashes by Sally
Price. (University of Michigan Press, second edition 1993, $16.95; buy it)
The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation
by Karen Houppert (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, $24; buy
it)
The Curse: A
Cultural History of Menstruation by Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton
and Emily Toth (University of Illinois Press, 1988; buy
it)
Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis
in American Culture Since 1870 by Catherine Ott (Harvard University
Press, 1997; paperback, 1999; buy
it)
Off Beat Museums by Saul Rubin
(Santa Monica Press, Santa Monica, California), first edition (The second
edition does not have this museum listed, since it's closed). Buy at 1-800-784-9553,
for $17.95, plus $3 shipping. Or write Santa Monica Press, P.O. Box 1076,
Dept. 4646, Santa Monica, CA 90406, USA.
Sweet Secrets:
Stories of Menstruation by Kathleen
O'Grady and Paula Wansbrough (Toronto: Second Story Press, 1997; buy it)
The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual
Satisfaction by Rachel Maines (Johns
Hopkins Press, 1999; buy
it)
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