pI can be a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister and a woman without having periods. This book explores two of the oldest and most important symbols of all time menstruation and secondary amenorrhea. Women of menstruating age commonly experience secondary amenorrhea - a cessation of periods - but most people have never heard of the term, nor do they realise what it represents. Danielle Redland's curiosity as to why this is posits that menstrual conditions need to be decoded, not just simply treated. ppSurveying menstruation and Secondary Amenorrhea SA principally from a psychoanalytic perspective, with sociocultural, historical, political and religious angles also examined, iPsychoanalytic Perspectives on Women, Menstruation and Secondary Amenorrheai draws secondary amenorrhea out of the shadows of its menstruating counterpart, and explores how narratives of womanhood and statehood dominate. Chapters on blood ideology and war amenorrhea, on Freud's treatment of Emma Eckstein and on the