Peri-menopause and menopause are still woefully understood phases of a woman’s life. Here’s a couple of recent Ask MetaFilter questions that delve into various aspects of these natural biological processes:
1. If hormones mess with you, what was peri/menopause like?
In addition, here's the menopause tag for AskMetaFilter, and don't forget to see the Related Tags sidebar!
In spamandkimchi's post on the shady history of the profit-motivated "baby pipeline" of South Korean infants for adoption in the West, mefi member i used to be someone else offers a very enlightening rejection of the idea of new radical feminism as the catalyst for the country's current low birthrate crisis and a clear disentangling of the historical, social, and economic forces that have shaped the present situation.
From a photo via PixaBay.com
In a pointed response to the sexist assumption that "books by women, about women, are more likely to be considered 'light reading,'" joannemerriam has assembled a great list of "small press books by women, about women, including Become Ungovernable, Feminism against Cisness, On Strike Against God, and 25 more."
Country Girl 13 by martinwcox (cc by)
"What's it like to be a girl in a band?" Box posts about the women who built grunge.
Judith: The First Crowned and Anointed Queen of Wessex... At Twelve Years Old
My aim with my newsletter is to eventually have written a biography of every single woman we know existed in England between roughly 500 and 1100: Wobbuffet posts historian Florence H R Scott's excellent and accessible "Ælfgif-who?" collection, with links to each entry so far.
book 23 by kruzul (cc by-sa)
Lots of great reading recommendations by members in the 50 Must-Read Fantasy Books by Women thread
Filthy light thief made a great post about Denise Murrell's student thesis that became "a groundbreaking show about how black people have been pictured across art history," and which is now an exhibit at Musée d'Orsay in Paris, where French masterpieces are renamed after black subjects.
Baba Yaga by Lady Orlando (cc by)
Listing the greatest songs by 21st century women; acquiring Artemesia Gentileschi; remembering activist Maria L. de Hernandez; applauding Therese Okoumou, shero for liberty; celebrating Kate Bush & Emily Brontë; & Emily Brontë; & Emily Carr, Canadian art pioneer; energizing recognition for women of science; peeking at Parker Posy's memoir; enjoying Nahre Sol's Pocket Pieces compositions; feeling good with Summery Lesbian Movies for Summer Lesbianing.
IMG_1697 by FrancescaV.com (cc by)
Recently on Mefi, people and places around the world, enchanting, mysterious and magnetic:
40 years of Shenzhen, from market village to SEZ
Breaking the Ice, rare Icelandic funk- and soul-inspired music
Central Station, stories from cattle stations in the Australian outback
Georgia Has a Coast? Photos by drone of the Georgia coast that fills his soul
Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran: looking at the lives of women during the Qajar dynasty (1796-1925)
La Scarzuola: deep in Italy, one man’s surrealist mini-city sleeps
Arundhati Roy on the politics of language and translation in India
Beyond 'Florida Man': The problem with writing about Florida
Figures In The Stars: comparing 28 different sky cultures
...sometimesnowhere.. by *ines_maria
Take a moment to look around you. Really look. See the city — the streets, the buildings, the spaces between them — and realize for a moment that virtually everything you see has been designed and shaped by men. Now imagine what it would be like if it were women-led. — Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman
supercrayon's Cities of ladies post is a stunning collection of great links about women-built cities, gender, women and urbanism / city planning.
Eat by Thomas Hawk (cc by-nc)
Recently served on Mefi:
Making 4,000-year-old stew | Wiki-Food and (mostly) Women | Let's Cook History vids | Epicurious asked 50 people to do some basic kitchen prep work and filmed the mayhem | Thinking about Chicken tenders | Donug‽ | The popular Budget Bytes recipe collection / blog | Bowl food | A Taste of South Sudan | The Weird and Wavy History of Wine Coolers | Feelings about cottage cheese
Heartland (crop) by rubixcom (cc by)
Don't miss the great posts so far for Women's March, by women members of Mefi for the month of March!
Image from page 118 of "Battlefield, 1916" (1916) by Internet Archive Book Images
It's March! Which means the kickoff of Women's March, a month where women are encouraged to post to the front page.
Currently in MetaTalk:
Testing out a new US Politics sidebar widget – A little something to assist both hiders and seekers
WomensMarch 2: Electric Boogaloo – For the third year, members discuss encouraging women to make front page posts to the site with a March drive
"Out of Nowhere" by Ray Kelly
So MANY great photo posts this month: a rare view of Victorian Women of Color; "Through Our Eyes" asked 100 homeless people in Spartanburg, South Carolina to take pictures of their lives; Vintage aerial photos of rural America; Was Diane Arbus the Most Radical Photographer of the 20th Century?; Six degrees of Copenhagen by Jens Juul; WaterWigs project by Tim Tadder; Restricted Areas series by Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko; freaky and cute Secret Friends; photographs by Degas; using drones to portray scenes of inequality in South Africa; Famous landmarks photographed from the "wrong" direction.
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