Like many women of the baby-boom generation, Alice Wilson-Fried
found the specter of menopause looming over her as a sinister
figure, come to take her womanhood, her mind, her energy, and her
enthusiasm for life. Surrounded by popular representations of aging
as a devastating illness to be fought against with all one's
strength, and seeing in medical literature the hormonal changes of
menopause likened to a mental illness, she withered in despair. And
then a miraculous power seized her: Tennis. . . and the friendship
and support of the women with whom she played. She'd never played
tennis--much less any sport--but in the latter half of her life,
the struggle to learn tennis became, in part, a quest to face the
challenges of menopause and aging head-on, with determination,
grit, and grace. In Menopause, Sisterhood, and Tennis, Wilson-Fried
offers the powerful story of one woman's tangled journey through
menopause. Based upon her own experience, and steeped in the rich
Southern humor of her mother and grandmother, this guide to
surviving "The Change" unveils the mystery of menopause, laying
bare the physiological, psychological, and emotional
transformations menopause brings to women's lives. In giving the
story of her own experience and research, Wilson-Fried offers to
women everywhere a laywoman's guide to the medical understanding of
menopause, offering personal "epiphanies" about why diet, exercise,
mental activity, and good humor are necessary for good health
during menopause--and even more important, encouragement,
motivation, and advice for women who despair of ever being able to
implement these strategies into daily life.
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