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Book Synopsis''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 PostThe seminal, ground-breaking and controversial feminist text on the menopause, revised and updatedWhen
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, b
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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 *
Like Simone de Beauvoir, she has the wit and elegance to lift the [feminist] argument beyond the dreary catalogue of injustice into the realm of cultural excitement ... she is
clever, witty, learned and courageous * Independent *
Brilliant … Greer combines a Keatsian sense of post-climactic fruitfulness with the cackling wisdom of a white witch … An ageing Greer – she is now seventy-nine – is a good deal more interesting than most men or women, and a good deal funnier … This is an important and necessary book -- Frances Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *
