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A review by historyofjess
The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Jen Gunter
informative
medium-paced
3.0
This wasn't as informative as I had hoped it would be. There's definitely a lot of information in it, but I had wanted it to feel more activating and less of an info dump. And there are a few hobby horses that the author keeps riding throughout it: exercise, diet and discussions of (breast/ovarian) cancer, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. There's good information in here, but it's buried under a lot of history, some anti-patriarchal ranting (which, normally, I'm all game for, but when I'm trying to learn something new, it kinda gets in the way) and those repetitive themes.
As someone who is beginning perimenopause, I didn't find much in here about what I'm going through right now and what I can expect in the near future. Like a lot of menopause resources, when it comes to symptoms, this is focused largely on the big ones like hot flashes (or flushes, as the author prefers to call them) and brain fog. So, it was a bit of a let down as I didn't feel like I found what I was looking for here.
As someone who is beginning perimenopause, I didn't find much in here about what I'm going through right now and what I can expect in the near future. Like a lot of menopause resources, when it comes to symptoms, this is focused largely on the big ones like hot flashes (or flushes, as the author prefers to call them) and brain fog. So, it was a bit of a let down as I didn't feel like I found what I was looking for here.