In its hard headed, richly documented concreteness, it is worth a thousand polemics.
-- New York Times, from a review of the first edition
The Curse deserves a place in every women's studies library collection.
-- Sharon Golub, editor of Lifting the curse of Menstruation
A stimulating and useful book, both for the scholarly and the general reader.
-- Paula A. Treichler, co-author of A Feminist Dictionary