The Change. Women, Ageing and the Menopause

London, England: Penguin Books, 1991. .The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that women are at least as interesting as men, and that ageing women are at least as interesting as younger women. The climacteric and women's experiences during it and their strategies for managing it all fascinate me. It is not a stage to hasten through, let alone obscure or deny. On these years depend the rest of your life, a life which may be as long as the life you have already lived.' Here at last is Germaine Greer's absorbing comprehensive study of the real and fundamental change which women experience during the menopause (or climacteric) and which, like other fundamental changes, needs mental preparation and profound acceptance if it is not to be found unbearable. Dr. Greer examines medical theories and treatment over the ages, and finds them often contradictory, exsessive and, at times, dangerous. She responds to the traditional attitiude of men and society which has been responsible for the creation of an image of the older woman as fake damsel or old crone. Dr. Greer has weighed up the facts, the theories and the outright fabrications and written the definitive work on this mysterious and challenging subject.some light creases to cover (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 1st Penguin Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.