On being left alone, finally

magine being a woman living under the patriarchy for 45 to 50 years. Then, slowly but surely, men finally begin to leave you alone. Wouldn’t that be liberating? Reclaiming menopause as the long-awaited (genotypically and phenotypically) women’s liberation has been in high fashion of late, so I was surprised when one of my favourite colleagues, a medical anthropologist in her 40s, dismissed reclaiming menopause as privileged and reductive...