Looks like that particular book doesn't look at Lamashtu, the child-snatching Mesopotamian demonness, or her Jewish descendant, Lilith - but Knapp's subsequent book, "Women, Myth and the Feminine Principle", does. (I have an entire book on the subject here somewhere which I still haven't read... lessee... that's "The Book of Lilith" by Barbara Black-Kultov.)

On the subject of ancient taboos... I figure if men want to control women's bodies, they'll come up with some excuse; if selectively quoting and interpreting the Bible doesn't do the job, then they'll do the same to science!