Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture

Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture by Knight, Chris. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780300063080.

This original and ingenious book presents a new theory of the origins of human culture. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, Chris Knight rejects the common assumption that human culture was a modified extension of primate behavior and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual, and political revolution initiated by women.