Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World

Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World by Judy Grahn. paperback edition. ISBN: 0046442075053.

"Blood, Bread, and Roses" reclaims womens myths and stories, chronicling the ways in which womens 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 cultures beginnings based on the integration of body, mind, and spirit found in womens traditions. "Blood, Bread, and Roses" offers all of us a way back to understanding the true meaning of womens menstraul power. Foreword by Charlene Spretnak "[Grahns] intriguing excursion through folklore, myth, religion, anthropology and history bespeaks a feminist conviction that male origin stories must be balanced by a recognition of womens central role in shaping civilization." -Publishers Weekly