Description
| Product ID: | 9781990048364 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Notes on Womanhood |
| Authors: | Author: Sarah Jane Barnett |
| Page Count: | 180 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: women |
| Description: | After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her forties, a comment by her doctor that she wouldnt be less of a woman prompted her to investigate what the concept of womanhood meant to her. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, part coming-of-middle-age story, Notes on Womanhood is the result. Here, Barnett examines the devastation she inflicted on herself as a young woman, the invisibility she feels as her youth fades, the power of female friendship, the stories women learn about midlife and menopause, and how being the daughter of a transgender woman changed her ideas of womanhood. This book is a conversation with myself about my own womanhood, Barnett says. The act of looking showed me the stitches: Western societys beauty standards, the male gaze, a fear of aging, hair politics, care work, my grandmother, life stage transitions, orca whales and tramping. All the authors I read Darcey Steinke, Alok Vaid-Menon, Megan Jayne Crabbe, Maggie Nelson, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Judith Butler, Dorthe Nors, Prue Hyman, Barbara Brookes, Natalie Wynn, Ani Mikaere, Atul Gawande and many more explore ideas about gender, aging and society in a way that opened a door to the next idea. I kept on walking through those doors. The result is what I am calling my coming-of-middle-age story. |
| Imprint Name: | Otago University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Otago University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-30 |
