Blood and the Anthropology of Menstruation
A 1988 collection of ethnographic studies found that menstrual seclusion is frequently experienced by the women involved as a source of autonomy and power rather than only restriction — a corrective that surfaces how much earlier anthropology of the subject was shaped by whose voices were actually consulted.
Thomas Buckley & Alma Gottlieb (eds.), Blood Magic (1988)
A body of research correcting the assumption, built largely by earlier male fieldworkers, that menstrual taboos across cultures are always about pollution and exclusion.