The Change
Women, Ageing and the Menopause
1st Edition
Published on 17. May 2018
496 pages
978-1-4088-8639-7 (ISBN)
Description
'A brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, exasperating fury of a book' New York Times
'Germaine Greer has given women just the book they need for this time of their lives. Read it, pass it on, talk about it, disagree with it, keep the circle going' Washington Post
The seminal, ground-breaking and controversial feminist text on the menopause, revised and updated
When The Change was published in 1991, 'menopause' was a word of fear. Then, as now, expensive magazines advertised even more expensive anti-ageing preparations, none of which worked. Big pharma was pushing replacement hormones, but doctors were dragging their feet. Some women told horror stories of their experiences with replacement hormones; others called them lifesavers.
Nobody knew why some women went through this change of life without difficulty. What was working for them, when other women were tormented almost to madness?
It seemed that we were close to an answer to that question, but that was before large-scale studies revealed that the protective effects of hormone replacement had been vastly exaggerated; given the perceived increase in the risk of life-threatening disease, the studies had to be called off.
Now more than ever, amid the clamour of online chatrooms and promotions for a vast array of alternative therapies, the individual woman has to manage her passage through menopause for herself. In The Change, Germaine Greer provides a common-sense guide to a very interesting and important stage of women's lives.
'Germaine Greer has given women just the book they need for this time of their lives. Read it, pass it on, talk about it, disagree with it, keep the circle going' Washington Post
The seminal, ground-breaking and controversial feminist text on the menopause, revised and updated
When The Change was published in 1991, 'menopause' was a word of fear. Then, as now, expensive magazines advertised even more expensive anti-ageing preparations, none of which worked. Big pharma was pushing replacement hormones, but doctors were dragging their feet. Some women told horror stories of their experiences with replacement hormones; others called them lifesavers.
Nobody knew why some women went through this change of life without difficulty. What was working for them, when other women were tormented almost to madness?
It seemed that we were close to an answer to that question, but that was before large-scale studies revealed that the protective effects of hormone replacement had been vastly exaggerated; given the perceived increase in the risk of life-threatening disease, the studies had to be called off.
Now more than ever, amid the clamour of online chatrooms and promotions for a vast array of alternative therapies, the individual woman has to manage her passage through menopause for herself. In The Change, Germaine Greer provides a common-sense guide to a very interesting and important stage of women's lives.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-8639-7 (9781408886397)
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Person
Germaine Greer is an Australian academic and journalist, and a major feminist voice of the mid-twentieth century. She gained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1967. She is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick. Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since The Female Eunuch became an international bestseller in 1970. She is the author of many other books including Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984); Shakespeare's Wife (2007); The Whole Woman (1999) and White Beech (2014).
Content
- Cover
- A Note on the Author
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Undescribed Experience
- 2 No Rite of Passage
- 3 The Lucky Ones
- 4 The Unlucky Ones
- 5 All Your Own Fault
- 6 The Unavoidable Consequences
- 7 Medical Ignorance
- 8 The Treatments - Allopathic
- 9 The Treatments - Traditional
- 10 The Treatments - Alternative
- 11 Misery
- 12 Grief
- 13 Sex and the Single Crone
- 14 The Aged Wife
- 15 The Hardy Perennials
- 16 The Old Witch
- 17 Serenity and Power
- Works Cited
- Index
- Copyright Page
