The Change - Hardcover

Greer, Germaine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394223160 ISBN 13: 9780394223162

Publisher: Knopf Canada, 1992

Synopsis

"A brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, exasperating fury of a book."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
In this compulsively readable, fascinating account of menopause, renowned feminist and author Germaine Greer gives us so much more than the medical facts. She has gone back into history, read textbooks, explored novels and poems, and has written a wholly extraordinary account of women and their changes in life.
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Review:

"This is a brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, bruising, exasperating fury of a book, broadly researched, boundlessly insightful . . . We are given hope--not that we can remain forever and fatuously young, but that we can surmount with our minds and our senses the choke hold of self and self-pity." - Natalie Angier, New York Times Book Review

"In a wise, witty and inspiring book, she rebukes doctors, psychiatrists--and women themselves--who blame the aging female for her menopausal distress . . . Greer dispels all manner of myths and misconceptions about menopause." - Publishers Weekly

"Greer turns the clear light of her ferocious intelligence on what she calls "the undescribed experience," the female climacteric--menopause . . . highly recommended for all collections." - Library Journal

About the Author:

Germaine Greer is an Australian academic and journalist, and a major feminist voice. Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since The Female Eunuch became an international bestseller in 1970. She is the author of many other books, including White Beech, Shakespeare's Wife, and Sex and Destiny. She is professor emerita of English literature and comparative studies at the University of Warwick. She lives in Essex, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Canada
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0394223160
• ISBN 13: 9780394223162
• Binding: Hardcover