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A Menopausal Memoir - Letters from Another Climate (Paperback)
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A Menopausal Memoir - Letters from Another Climate (Paperback)
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The only extended, first-person narrative about menopause, A
Menopausal Memoir: Letters from Another Climate explores the
connection between menopause, mourning, and memory through nine
fictional letters written to different addressees. The letters
explain the author's own experience of having a hysterectomy
(without her permission) during surgery for endometriosis and being
thrown into instant menopause. Herrmann expresses her experiences
differently in each letter based on the recipient's gender, sexual
identity, and age, revealing the complexities of accepting
menopause. Psychotherapists, psychologists, physicians, medical
students, academics, and those interested in women's health and
women's studies will receive insight into one woman's experience
and will learn how our bodies mold our sexual identity and shape
many aspects of our lives. Writing these letters from the point of
view of a scholar engaged in personal narrative but not in the
familiar narrative of a woman married with children, Herrmann
examines her journey of loss, recovery, and healing through
feminist theory.The letters in A Menopausal Memoir reveal many
other issues, including: the relationship between the female body
and the meanings attached to it the different ways women tell their
stories about difficult experiences negotiating the relationship
between growing older and sexual identity the body's response(s) to
the loss of organs that form/inform its history the connection
between body, identity, and disease A highly personal, yet
theoretical, approach to the experience of menopause, A Menopausal
Memoir explores how changes in the body affect your sexual
identity, your relationships, and your feelings as a woman.
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