1st Edition
Storying the Menopause An Evocative Auto/ethnography
Foreword
Jess Moriarty
How To Read the Book
Part I: Introduction
1. Shanta’s story part I: Something nasty
2. Contextualising the menopause
3. How auto/ethnography is used in the book
Part II: The interview stories
4. Maria’s story: Early menopause
5. Kim’s story: HRT as a cancer survivor
6. Yasmin’s story: POI and ADHD
7. Tammy’s story: Not fitting the dominant narrative
8. Hannah’s story: Perimenopause and mental health
9. Josephine’s story: Breast cancer after 5 years on HRT
10. Grace’s story: Menopause in the workplace
11. Cara’s story: Menopause, identity and sexuality
12. Ivy’s story: Menopause and disability
13. Jyoti’s story: Menopause and cultural taboos
14. Kathleen’s story: Hysterectomy and sudden menopause
15. Ajay’s story: Menopause and non-binary gender identity
16. Shanta’s story part 2: What happened next and how the other stories speak to mine
Part III: Representation and Resonance
17. Contributing to new understandings of menopause through an evocative auto/ethnographical approach to the co-creation of stories
Biography
Shanta Everington is Associate Lecturer and Honorary Associate at The Open University, UK, where she gained her PhD in Creative Writing, specialising in life writing. A creative and critical writer working across a range of forms, Shanta specialises in creative practice as socially engaged research. Previous books include the following: Another Mother: Curating and Creating Voices of Adoption, Surrogacy and Egg Donation (2023), XY (2014) and Marilyn and Me (2007). She is a Writing Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund and a member of the National Association of Writers in Education.
