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The Unmentionable History of the West.(Book review)
The Unmentionable History of the West by Nancy Millar. Red Deer: Red Deer Press, 158 pp., illus., paper, $22.95.
Nancy Millar has found and written about interesting aspects of history--prairie graveyards, Canadian tombstones, outhouses, etc. Now she tackles a new subject, the "unmentionables" of our society from fur trading days to the present. What are "unmentionables"? Well, they are all the things that "good" people never mentioned. These included underclothing, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and a host of others things.
To gather information, the author interviewed scores of people. In their younger days they would never have mentioned the ...
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