Years of Change Menopause
is not an illness - although cosmetic and
pharmaceutic industries like to tell you so. Traveling back into
history as well as into Southern European, African and Japanese
traditions, the
documentary shows that the perspective on those years of change
depends
on your cultural point of view. We can see how Japanese women in
their 50s suddenly get medicalized by taking over Western
medicine and
eating habits: the word "hot flush" is a neologism in Japanese
while
the normal symptom for both sexes would be "stiff shoulders". Artists like photographer Ute Karen Seggelke and Annegret
Soltau create a different view on the vital, self-confident and
selfdetermined women over 50 today, and the "Missfits" show how
much fun menopause can be. |
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