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a woman’s mental health postmenopause is usually better than it’s been at any other time in the life of that particular woman, other than maybe childhood.” What. “Is that really true? Is it because our periods stop?” “Mm, it’s more that we aren’t cycling anymore between estrogen and progesterone and FSH. And, of course, in a patriarchy your body is
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The most authentic, fleshed out, truly female-centered narratives (e.g. Little Women and My Brilliant Friend) all include Time as a main character.
Women exist in cycles, phases, periods, seasons. A snapshot in time of a woman is not what she once was or what she will be. We are maidens, mothers, and matriarchs. We... See more
Kyrasubstack.com‘enduring time had a particular relation to repetition, a temporality classically linked with women’s time, that was neither simply about reproductive labour and the time of development, nor the temporalities of cyclicality, but about a principle in psychic and social life of the permanent non-severance of selves, others and institutions from what
... See moreFor most women between the ages of approximately ten years old to around fifty years old, our nature is cyclic. However, we are raised with the expectation of living and working and behaving like men. We are taught, unrealistically, to expect that the things that fulfil men and meet their needs will also make us happy and contented – and when we
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If you had hormonal constancy, as men did, you might not be taking your cues from your body about when to rest. You would have to build that in: Sunday is the day we don’t work, God’s day. But if what defined the days was you, your biological clock and calendar, then every day might as well be Tuesday. Perhaps you wanted to work for two weeks
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