Flow
Elissa Stein
St. Martin's Press
<p><p>In this hip, hilarious and truly eye-opening cultural history, menstruation is talked about as never before. <B>Flow</B><I> </I>spans its fascinating, occasionally wacky and sometimes downright scary story: from <I>mikvahs</I> (ritual cleansing baths) to menopause, hysteria to hysterectomies&#8212;not to mention the Pill, cramps, the history of underwear, and the movie about puberty they showed you in 5th grade. </P><P><B>Flow</B> answers such questions as: What's the <I>point</I> of getting a period? What did women do before pads and tampons? What about new drugs that promise to end periods&#8212;a hot idea or not? Sex during your period: gross or a turn-on? And what's <I>normal</I>, anyway? With color reproductions of (campy) historical ads and early (excruciating) femcare devices, it also provides a fascinating (and mind-boggling) gallery of this complex, personal and uniquely female process. </P><P>As irreverent as it is informative, <B>Flow</B> gives an everyday...