Off the rag : lesbians writing on menopause / edited by Lee Lynch and Akia Woods.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223).

An ode to estrogen / Karla Jay -- The wise protectress / Tasha Anthony Johnson -- Menopause and the gift of healing / Elena Sherman -- Menopause and the ugly duckling syndrome / Carolyn Gage -- In tune with my body / Connie Panzarino -- Nearly, at last / Candis Graham -- "Changing back" / Azalia Rodriguez -- "Don't worry, dear, it's really all in your glands" / Sarah Dreher -- Hot flash to warm glow / Jean Mountaingrove -- Prescribing for menopausal women / Barbara Bennett, MD -- Two old maids / Judith E. Beckett and Paij Wadley-Bailey -- Women-o-pause / Laura Post -- Desire perfected: sex after fifty / Joan Nestle -- The sacred M words / Henri Bensussen -- Cum with me Lucy (excerpts from the novel) / Red Jordan Arobateau -- Testing one, two, three / Julia Willis -- Question / Mandy Carter -- Kotex, Tampax and vitamin E / Maria -- Free! free! free! / Mariwynne and Lynn -- Life with Irene, the menopause and the pink tablets / Beatriz Copello -- Lesbian menopause / Mary Clare Powell -- Out of the saddle at twenty-six / Mededith More -- The period: a sequel / Marilyn Murphy -- Learning to live with my body / Julia Penelope -- My life as a volcano / Merrill Mushroom -- The menopause cocoon / Zana -- Toward a new understanding of the importance of eating weeds / Lauren Crux -- Flossie's flashes / Sally Miller Gearhart -- Learning to listen to myself / Pearlie McNeill -- "A disease of housewives" / Valerie Taylor -- Trapped in jello / Mattie Fast -- Thoughts of konenki-menopause / Naeko Wakabayashi -- Half of a map / Sandy Boucher -- Menopause waltz / Sue O'Sullivan -- A change of mind / Pele Plante -- Some thoughts on the menopause / Rev. Victoria Lee-Owens -- Non-menopause: a chronology / Susan J. Wolfe -- Summertime / Lee Lynch -- Now don't start that again! / Shelly Roberts -- Change of life / Sunlight -- Hormonic convergence: con sangre/sin sangre / Terri de la Peña.