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There’s been a wild rumour, current for a few thousand years, that the female mind is illogical. Obviously you will not expect me to confirm that. But I have to admit where the menopause is concerned women’s views, if not illogical, can at least be strangely ambivalent. With one part of her mind a woman may positively welcome the onset of infertility and the end of risk of pregnancy, while simultaneously at a deeper level she may feel threatened, diminished and devalued.
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Cooper, W. (1976). A woman’s view of the menopause. In: Campbell, S. (eds) The Management of the Menopause & Post-Menopausal Years. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6165-7_1
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