The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature

This book draws on literary, cultural, and critical examples forming a  menstrual imaginary —a body of work by women writers and poets that builds up a concept of women’s creativity in an effort to overturn menstrual prejudice. The text addresses key arbiters of the  menstrual imaginary  in a series of letters, including Sylvia Plath the initiator of ‘the blood jet’, Hélène Cixous the pioneer of a conceptual red ink and the volcanic unconscious, and Luce Irigaray the inaugura