Notes on Womanhood: A conversation about gender and identity

After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her forties, a comment by her doctor that she wouldn’t be \”less of a woman\” prompted her to investigate what the concept of womanhood meant to her. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, part coming-of-middle-age story, Notes on Womanhood is the result. Here, Barnett examines the devastation she inflicted on herself as a young woman, the invisibility she feels as her youth fades, the power of female friendship, the stories women learn about midlife and menopause, and how being the daughter of a transgender woman changed her ideas of womanhood.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
Imprint: Otago University Press
Publication date: 30/06/2022