Menstruation in SF

Stories Featuring or About Menstruation

Fiction

• Suzy McKee Charnas. "Boobs" (Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine, 1989; Skin of the Soul, ed. Tuttle, 1990; Penguin book of Modern Fantasy by Women, ed. Williams, 1995)
• Stephen Dedman. "From Whom All Blessings Flow"
• Anita Diamant. The Red Tent.
• Jan Dickson. "Moonshine Quartet." Women (Baltimore, Maryland), v. 5, no. 1 (1976) (lesbian protagonist)
• Katherine Forrest. "O Captain, My Captain" (1987) (menstrual blood vampire story)
• Judy Grahn. Mundane's World (coming-of-age menstruation ritual)
• Barb Lakey or Barb Rausch. "Claire de Lune" (Wimmen's Comix #13, Supernatural Issue)
• Richard A. Lupoff. Lisa Kane (young girl becomes a werewolf at puberty)
• Alan Moore. "Swamp Thing" from DC (included a story on fear of menstruation)
• Jody Scott. Passing for Human (alien/vampire menstrual blood)
• Jody Scott. I Vampire (alien/vampire menstrual blood; sequel)
• Theodore Sturgeon. "Some of Your Blood"
• Sheri S. Tepper. The Gate to Women's Country (in a sexist society, menstruating women are required to place a red flag on their doors)
• Connie Willis. "Even the Queen" (satirizes an anti-menstrual women's cycle)

Movies

• "Carrie" (1976; dir. Brian De Palma, starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie and Amy Irving) (menarche coincides with development of telekinesis)
• "Ginger Snaps" (2000; dir. John Fawcett; starring Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins) (puberty paralleled with transformation into a werewolf)
• "A Tale of Two Sisters" (2003; dir. Ji-woon Kim; 115 min. Starring Kim Kap-su, Yum Jung-a, Lim Su-jeong and Moon Geun-yeong. (horror film; the sisters' menstruation is part of a nightmare)