{"product_id":"the-change-9781408886373","title":"The Change","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, exasperating fury of a book'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e''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'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe seminal, ground-breaking and controversial feminist text on the menopause, revised and updated\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eThe Change\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ebrilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, exasperating fury\u003c\/b\u003e of a book * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eGermaine Greer has given women just the book they need for this time of their lives. \u003cb\u003eRead it, pass it on, talk about it, disagree with it\u003c\/b\u003e, keep the circle going * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eLike 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 \u003cb\u003eclever, witty, learned and courageous\u003c\/b\u003e * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant … 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 *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866826289495,"sku":"9781408886373","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408886373.jpg?v=1722280168","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-change-9781408886373","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}