the change: women, ageing and the menopause

<p>The Change: Women, Ageing And The Menopause</p>

<p>The seminal, ground-breaking and controversial feminist text on the menopause, revised and updated</p>

<p>When&nbsp;The Change&nbsp;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.</p>

<p>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?</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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&nbsp;The Change, Germaine Greer provides a common-sense guide to a very interesting and important stage of women's lives.</p>