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)
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)

"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.