Book Review
Sep. 9th, 2021 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariThe Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism
by Jennifer Gunter
Given that my cancer treatment has resulted in an abrupt entry into full menopause, this book was extremely timely. Gunter covers everything you need to know about menopause and the transition into it: the biology and physiology of it, all the common symptoms and issues women experience, health risks that come with menopause and aging, hormone therapy, and non-hormonal therapies. She also includes some history of how menopause has been viewed and treated in America and Europe and refreshing feminist commentary on our society's largely patriarchal concepts of menopause.
I found The Menopause Manifesto extremely informative and really readable. Gunter is engaging, and I enjoyed her feminist take on things. Her push-back against the idea of menopause as a time of decline and a slide towards death in which women become increasingly irrelevant and useless was incredibly reassuring. She instead re-frames menopause as a normal stage of life and change in our reproductive systems just like puberty. I feel so much better about being thrown into menopause after reading this.
by Jennifer Gunter
Given that my cancer treatment has resulted in an abrupt entry into full menopause, this book was extremely timely. Gunter covers everything you need to know about menopause and the transition into it: the biology and physiology of it, all the common symptoms and issues women experience, health risks that come with menopause and aging, hormone therapy, and non-hormonal therapies. She also includes some history of how menopause has been viewed and treated in America and Europe and refreshing feminist commentary on our society's largely patriarchal concepts of menopause.
I found The Menopause Manifesto extremely informative and really readable. Gunter is engaging, and I enjoyed her feminist take on things. Her push-back against the idea of menopause as a time of decline and a slide towards death in which women become increasingly irrelevant and useless was incredibly reassuring. She instead re-frames menopause as a normal stage of life and change in our reproductive systems just like puberty. I feel so much better about being thrown into menopause after reading this.
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Date: 2021-09-09 02:30 pm (UTC)My favorite story (not from her) from quite a while back was comparing surveys of menopause experience between the US and Japan. USians complained about hot flashes, mostly. The Japanese respondents listed stuff like worsening eyesight, ie changes brought on by aging in general, not just the hormonal shift.