Word: anophiliac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...either because women's sufferings are considered unimportant or because the sufferings just don't occur. Greer coins the term anophobia to describe the irrational fear and dislike of old women so prevalent in Western culture, and one can't help wondering how menopause would be experienced in an "anophiliac" setting -- where elderly women receive the same respect and honor as gray-templed males. Hot flashes might feel like surges of energy, or like the "rush((es)) of revelation" described in an earlier menopause best seller, Barbara Raskin's ebullient 1987 novel, Hot Flashes...
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