Orthdoxy

Houck... has researched menopausal sentiments expressed by doctors, the popular press and women themselves, from the late-19th century to the present... Much of the information she's unearthed is both horrifying and fascinating. - Michele Kort, Ms Houck takes white, middle-class women's experiences and the complexity of medicine seriously. Activists will find her historical analysis provocative and scholars will be particularly interested in the sources she has identified and examined. Houck's view of menopause certainly complicates both medical and feminist history, proof that this story from the past can still generate heat. - Susan E. Bell, Women's Review of Books