§ II · A note from the atelier · MMXXVIBy Ling, in M.'s hand There is a moment in the afternoons, beginning sometime in your forties and not ending again, that arrives at roughly four o'clock and asks the woman it has arrived to: what now? The light has changed. The morning's clarity is gone. You have been working since seven and you will be expected to be present for another four or five hours. Your stomach has done something it did not used to do — it has asked...
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§ I · A note from the atelier · MMXXVIBy Ling, in M.'s hand The English word menopause is from the Greek meno, meaning month, and pausis, meaning to stop. The word was first used in a French medical journal in 1821, and it described what was then understood as a clinical condition: a woman's body, having stopped doing what it was meant to do, had become a kind of disorder to be managed. Two hundred years later, the framing has not really changed. The clinics call it the same...
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