Status Updates From Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis ...

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With their biological and social purpose coming to an end, menopausal women had, historically, been vilified as dangerous or dismissed as useless.”

“For centuries, the demise of a woman’s fertility [a women aging and reaching menopause] had been regarded as an illness that disturbed the body and deranged the mind. Superstitions about the ageing female body, which had haunted women since the witch-trails, inflamed perceptions about the destructive consequences of the end of a woman’s reproductive life..cont