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The Silent Passage book. From the flyleaf:The best-selling author of Passages returns. All women face menopause, but, as gail Sheehy so compellingly reveals in interviews with women from a broad spectrum of economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds, the passage is seldom easy. Distracting symptoms, confusing medical advice, From the flyleaf: "The best-selling author of Passages returns with a myth-shattering investigation of America's last taboo: menopause.

This is the second copy of Gail Sheehy's, "The Silent Passage" (which I first purchased back in 1998 for myself. I recently bought it as I wanted to make a gift of it to a dear friend who was leaving the area permanently

This is the second copy of Gail Sheehy's, "The Silent Passage" (which I first purchased back in 1998 for myself. I recently bought it as I wanted to make a gift of it to a dear friend who was leaving the area permanently. I had lent my copy out several times to others going through the "dread" of that period in a woman's life.

Gail Sheehy (born Gail Henion on November 27, 1937) is an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She is the author of seventeen books and numerous high-profile articles for magazines such as New York and Vanity Fair

Gail Sheehy (born Gail Henion on November 27, 1937) is an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She is the author of seventeen books and numerous high-profile articles for magazines such as New York and Vanity Fair

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As I read "The Silent Passage," I found myself nodding in agreement, or stopping in amazement. I urge all women to read this book.

The Silent Passage: MENOPAUSE. October 1991 Gail Sheehy. The Silent Passage: MENOPAUSE Gail Sheehy October 1991.

00 Gail Sheehy's landmark bestseller has become the bible for women concerned about menopause. She has also continued to interview countless women throughout the country on the subject.

Sheehy's book will be a bible for them-and hopefully for the doctors who treat them. A compelling discussion about menopause, packed with facts and anecdotes that are right on target for the baby-boom women about to encounter change of life

Sheehy's book will be a bible for them-and hopefully for the doctors who treat them. A compelling discussion about menopause, packed with facts and anecdotes that are right on target for the baby-boom women about to encounter change of life. This short volume is an outgrowth of an article that Sheehy wrote for Vanity Fair when she began to experience menopausal symptoms. The response from readers was immediate, clearly confirming that the article had cracked & last taboo. To rephrase an old saw, nobody wants to talk about menopause, but everybody wants to do something about it.

The author of Passages, a book that changed millions of lives, now lays bare her own life passages in a captivating memoir that reveals her harrowing and ultimately triumphant path from groundbreaking 1960s "girl" journalist to fearless bestselling author who made a career of excavating cultural taboos-from sex, menopause, and midlife crisis to illness, caregiving, and death

She discusses Gail Sheehy’s The Silent Passage and Germaine Greer’s The Change. She quotes Jean Rhys and Simone de Beauvoir. She strives to make her observations profound, lyrical and literary.

She discusses Gail Sheehy’s The Silent Passage and Germaine Greer’s The Change. Sometimes she seems aware of the glaring discrepancy between her lofty wisdom and the knottier reality. Her mother, a former beauty queen, died alone in her home and was discovered only after neighbors noticed the newspapers piling up outside; Steinke wants to believe that her mother’s compulsive hoarding and end-of-life squalor was a rebellious act of de-creation.