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The Wise Wound: menstruation and everywoman Paperback – September 1, 2005

by Penelope Shuttle (Author), Peter Redgrove (Author)
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“The first accessible book about menstruation as a human reality . . . entirely praiseworthy.”—The Sunday Times

This is a book of many questions and some answers. What is this menstruation that half the world undergoes? Has it any use, or any purpose? Which is it, blessing or curse?

This groundbreaking study of the facts, fantasies, and taboos surrounding menstruation has helped bring about a profound shift in attitudes toward a natural phenomenon that has been reviled and denigrated over the centuries. Thoroughly researched yet highly readable, combining psychology, anthropology, and poetry, Shuttle and Redgrove illustrate their theories using examples ranging from the Bible to such modern-day pop horrors as vampire movies and the cult film The Exorcist.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd (September 1, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0714534056
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714534053
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 1.1 x 7.8 inches
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Fierce & Fond Reviewer
5.0 out of 5 stars A Life Changing Story
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2012
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I found the first edition of THE WISE WOUND in Laney Community (Oakland CA) College's reference library back in the '70s. It was an astonishingly accessible scientific explanation of how our periods work... & why!

As a teenager holidaying on a Herefordshire farm during my English childhood, I asked Farmer Jones why he put the ram to the ewes when they were bleeding. The poor chap went brick red & silent. I went away mystified.

Some years later when I was on the hunt in Earls Court for a contraception contraption I could put in & take out, I was told by the chap behind the counter, who was showing me a pink little French "chapeau," that my periods were the one time I was least likely to conceive but that men & their religions had many taboos about women's blood. He c/wouldn't explain why. This was in the Dark Ages when you had to ask your doc for a birth control Rx B4 The Pill.

All I knew was there were times of the month my body was randy & other times when she just wanted to be left alone so my mind could think everso Big Thoughts about life, that thing called LOVE & its highly addictive exchanges of body fluids, the amazing grandeur of pregnancy, the incarceration of motherhood & the bliss of being celibate.

By the time I got to Berkeley, I'd already had my two children & my tubes tied, & still didn't know the first thing about how menstruation happened & why we had periods & not estruses like all other mammals, so one year at a college I could afford, I decided to find out, B4 PCs!

First I had to explore horizontal mammals' reproductive cycles & then, bearing in mind that we are the only mammal to live in an upright position, THE WISE WOUND, along with the library's extensive & new anatomical & medical reference section plus Gravity, became my sources.

The authors' names, Shuttle & Redgrove, was my first Cosmic Clue that they know of what they wrote.
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M Cirpili
5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionize your menses and your mind!
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2018
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It's pretty dense but this is probably the most empowering piece of text I've ever read about menstruation, feminine mysticism, and patriarchal oppression. The authors do a brilliant job linking the physiological reactions within the body to cultural and spiritual notions about women from the earliest moments of recorded history. This book is valuable for all menstruating or even menopausal persons, as well as psychologists and those just looking to better understand the feminine mystique.
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Cdixon
4.0 out of 5 stars A must read
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2005
This book is one of the books I recommend to anyone trying to understand more about modern culture and menstruation. Shuttle and Redgrove do a very decent job exploring myth, biology, and psychology to present the menstrual process as a holistic experience. The book is a hefty read which can at times be tough to follow, but for a beginning look at sociology and menstruation it really can't be beat.

There are reasons I didn't rate this book as 5 stars. The authors fall back on Jungian psychology for almost all of their assumptions. I find Jungian methods to be inherently flawed in their assumptions, that the active portions of the psyche are inherently male, and the passive portions are inherently female. The authors also rely on free association with myth and popular culture to tie the book together, diminishing the book's usefulness as a basis for a scholarly discussion on the culture towards menstruation.

In other words, a good place to start looking, but if you're serious about researching the phenomenon, keep reading other books after this one.
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M Huston
5.0 out of 5 stars Brain Food
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2013
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This book is the female body and mentality like you've never seen or thought about it before. It gets a little heavy on the psychological academia at times, but it's an easy read that really engages the brain and will likely challenge your personal attitudes and mind sets about women's physiology and psychology (and how those two things mingle, constantly) as well as society's impact on the female gender at large. You will not be disappointed.
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Sue Brooks
5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2021
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This book covers a lot of ground. Very readable and educational.
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Rashida Rose
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017
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Positive experience.
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5.0 out of 5 stars PMS turned inside out
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2000
Pre-menstrual syndrome, with all its characteristics of cramps, pain, depression and headaches is nothing more than male programming or 'Howlback' according to the WW. Women have been conditionned to perceive the bleed as just a biological inconvenience which can be modified or 'treated' with drugs or ignored completely. Shuttled and Redgrove theorize the motivation behind this pattern and deconstruct it using examples from ancient cultures and horror film imagery of the menstruating female.
But the text covers much more than PMS; in a way, the latent significance of menstruation has been turned 'outside- in', concealed from and downgraded by modern society and suppressed. The WW demonstrates how the gifts of the bleed can be turned back inside (from the unconscious) out (to consciousness), that is back to the right and Natural place in the importance of our femality.
If you are looking for advice on how diet can help with PMS dont bother with this book. If you want to change the 'curse' into a very wise wound indeed, the you MUST read it. My wisebleed is now my 'call of the wild' and PMS is His-story !
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elf
5.0 out of 5 stars A different perspective
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2004
This book changed the way I see my femininity for ever. I think everyone should read it.
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A Chapman
5.0 out of 5 stars Every man and woman should read this book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2024
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I've read many profoundly brilliant books in my life (I'm 66 years old). I work deeply in suicide, addictions, metabolic and holistic health and healing, energies, ancient wisdoms, plasma, vibrations, grief and generational trauma, and trauma-informed therapy and education. I'm a co-founding member of the International Food Addiction Consensus Conference and a co-author of the international bestselling #RattledAwake Anthology series, volume 7. The Wise Wound explains the subjugation and demonisation and abuse of women and girls by men, and the conditioned societal democidal bias against women for millennia. Read it. Read it and weep for the unimaginably horrific crimes against women, ongoing, and so also realise our opportunities as a species for transcendent spiritual growth and rebirth. Infinite love and gratitude for the peaceful planet we want for our children and their children. Choose love not the devil, and sense in your soul to know the difference. Alan Chapman
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Marília Brandão
5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful
Reviewed in Brazil on June 2, 2019
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It's an honor to have this book in my hands.
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jessica
4.0 out of 5 stars It is nice to read a book about menstruation that incorporate magic ...
Reviewed in Canada on January 31, 2015
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When you read this title don't forget it has been written few decades back but it is still actual. It is nice to read a book about menstruation that incorporate magic and witchcraft.
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paola
5.0 out of 5 stars Must have for every woman, beautiful and moving book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2010
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I'm amazed this book only has 2 reviews! I bought cos it was quoted in something else I read last year and it changed my life...not joking! If my journey of transformation to a happier and self-loving woman started before I read this book, it is certainly thanks to it that I finally went deep down into myself and started questioning a lot of my beliefs and behaviours. This book is not just about menstruation, it's about women's repression throughout history, how to liberate oneself from the prisons within, and start loving oneself. Every woman who feels unhappy with who she is and feels disconnected from herself and nature MUST read this book to restore that connection.
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Susan
4.0 out of 5 stars The most wacky book I ever read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2017
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I read this book back in 2015. I think that it is the most wacky book I ever read. (Of course it is possible that I might not still think that if I read it again now.) The book is about menstruating women and how societies have reacted to them. Many tribes revere them and they are given time and space to dream dreams and see visions for their own benefit and also the benefit of the community. It is a spiritual book about the power of menstruating women and the power of the blood. It says in one place that men definitely menstruate too (in Jungian terms the anima (i.e. The other/feminine part in men) menstruates). I think it would be good if a lot more men read this book.
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