Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Menopause 5
6. Menopositive! 11
7. #crockpotrunner 17
8. When My Biological Clock Stopped Ticking 26
9. Burning Up 32
10. Desertification 36
11. Zen and the Art of Menopausal Maintenance 39
12. Climacteric Calamity 44
13. My Menopause Story 47
14. “Are You Sexually Active?”: Vaginal Truth Telling 49
15. Invisible Lady 50
16. The End, for Now 52
17. A Slow Intermittent Leak 58
18. 2.14 am–4.43 am: Let Me Introduce Myself 64
19. Any Day Now 66
20. Cycles 74
21. An End Is Not the End 78
22. Ready, Set, “Pause” 82
23. The Big Change 83
24. Paused 84
25. Kimiko Does Menopause 90
26. Surgical Menopause—in Ten Postures 91
27. When the Menopause Carnival Comes to Town 96
28. (A) Men-O-Pause 112
29. Antique Restoration 124
30. Resources 129
31. List of Contributors 131