5 must-read science books like It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation by Anna Dahlqvist

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Similar categories in Jennifer Weiss-Wolf's Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• feminism
• womens
• nonfiction
• social justice

Similar categories in bell hooks's Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• feminism
• womens
• nonfiction
• social justice

Similar categories in Ágota Kristóf's Trilogia della città di K. book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Liv Strömquist's Kunskapens frukt book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

Similar categories in Karen Houppert's The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

Similar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

Similar categories in Kate Lister's A Curious History of Sex book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• feminism
• nonfiction
• adult
• sociology
• science

"Vulvas aren’t dainty. They can eat a penis and push out a baby."

-Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex

Similar categories in Leah Hazard's Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• feminism
• womens
• nonfiction
• science

Similar categories in Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form and Emptiness book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"

-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• adult

"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

Similar categories in Sarah E. Hill's This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• feminism
• womens
• nonfiction
• science

"Although the science is still new and there is a lot to be learned, it is unacceptable for you to stay in the dark any longer. We know too much for you to know so little."

-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

"Despite the newness of the science and tentativeness of the conclusions that can currently be drawn, changing women's hormones changes women. And this is a big deal. Although we don't yet know that t…"

-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

"It should come as absolutely no surprise that research has ignored women for so long because the establishment: the journal publishers, the reviewers and the funding agencies has rewarded it. Althoug…"

-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

"For a long time being female was treated by science and medicine as being akin to having a serious psychological disorder. Women were routinely prescribed hysterectomies or anxiolytics like valium to…"

-Sarah E. Hill, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Similar categories in Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• womens
• nonfiction

"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

Similar categories in Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• adult

"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

Similar categories in Caroline Criado Pérez's Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• feminism
• nonfiction
• social justice
• womens
• sociology
• science

"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Similar categories in Lottie Hazell's Piglet book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• adult

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

Similar categories in Ella Baxter's New Animal book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• womens
• adult

"I can’t relax around repeated invitations to be introspective."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"I think it's human nature to want to look at wounds. It must be."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"Interesting to note my spiraling in real time. Strange to bear witness."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"But your body. Your beautiful, beautiful body. It clings to you through it all."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

Similar categories in Daisy Alpert Florin's My Last Innocent Year book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• adult

Similar categories in Melissa Febos's Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• feminism
• nonfiction

"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

Similar categories in Mikki Kendall's Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• feminism
• nonfiction
• social justice
• womens
• adult

"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Similar categories in Emma Cline's Daddy book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• adult

Similar categories in Ijeoma Oluo's Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• feminism
• social justice
• nonfiction
• sociology

"It's the expectations that many white men have that they shouldn't have to climb, shouldn't have to struggle, as others do. It's the idea not only that they think they have less than others, but that…"

-Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• feminism
• nonfiction

"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

Similar categories in Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• social justice
• nonfiction
• sociology

"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• adult

Similar categories in Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• adult

"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

Similar categories in Nadya Okamoto's Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• feminism
• womens
• nonfiction
• social justice

Similar categories in Jill Gutowitz's Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• feminism
• adult
• nonfiction

"Take a look at the bridge of “Mean"

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

"The point is: if an activity or a show or a thing is only (or mostly) adored by men, that's a red flag."

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

"Some days I wish I could throw my phone and all its dumb little apps into the sea, follow it briskly into the waves, and free myself from the chains of being Severely Online."

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

Similar categories in Daisy Buchanan's Insatiable book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• adult

Similar categories in Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation book and Anna Dahlqvist's It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

• feminism
• womens studies
• nonfiction
• social justice
• society
• womens
• adult
• sociology
• science