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Jane Cawthorne's work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, literary journals, on CBC and in academic journals. In 2011, she was a finalist for the Alberta Writers Guild, Howard O-Hagan Short Fiction Award for her story "Weight." Her play, The Abortion Monologues, has been produced many times in the United States and Canada. Jane lives in Toronto and is completing an MFA in Creative Writing with the Solstice Program at Pine Manor College in Boston. E. D. (Elaine) Morin is a writer, editor, and creative writing instructor. Her fiction, poetry, interviews, book reviews, and articles have appeared in such publications as The Antigonish Review, Alberta Views, The Wascana Review and Alternatives Journal, and her work has been produced for broadcast on CBC Radio. A winner of the Brenda Strathern Late Bloomers Writing Prize, awarded at 2007 Calgary International Wordfest, Elaine is a co-director of the annual Calgary reading series, Writing in the Works.
"We live it but we don't often talk about it publicly. Reading this
book is like joining a hot conversation of distinct voices, each
with a unique approach to storytelling. Their stories are clever,
funny, and sometimes, bloody embarrassing. They talk about living
with symptoms that keep you awake, melt your skin and your
patience, and make you loud, cranky, and tearful. Their stories
tell us how menopause shifted their thinking about their bodies,
aging, fertility, sexuality and gender identity. When I finished
the last page I felt as free as I did getting to the other side of
menopause."
--Diana L. Gustafson, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St.
John's, and co-author of Reproducing Women: Family and Health Work
Across Three Generations"Strong women. Sexy women. Funny, proud,
and beautiful women, living life to the full and in charge of their
own destiny. Sometimes hot and sweaty, but never afraid. This
anthology of poetry and prose provides an inspirational insight
into the complexity of women's experience of menopause. There may
be lows, but these are far outweighed by the highs. Reading this
book made me both laugh and cry, and feel glad to be a woman at
mid-life. I recommend it highly."
--Jane M. Ussher, author of The Madness of Women: Myth and
Experience, and The Psychology of the Female Body "This volume
breaks the silence surrounding menopause through women's stories of
their own experiences of this important life transition. It should
be essential reading for health practitioners, women's health
researchers, and women living through, or anticipating, this phase
of their lives. As the accounts in this book demonstrate, it can
often be the best phase."
--Janette Perz, Director of the Centre for Health Research, Western
Sydney University"Remember the not-so-distant past, when women
didn't speak about menopause--except in tones that expressed
diminishing dread, as if a women's worth was connected to fertility
and birth. This collection will help to evolve arcane perceptions.
As every woman's experience with menopause is unique, so is every
piece in this collection. The more we listen and the more we speak,
the more our wisdom surges. The more we learn about our
woman-beings, the more we reframe the myths that have isolated us
from true nature--from the wild we have in our spirits."
--Sheri-D Wilson, Poet
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