Call for Interviews

by Dr. Margaret Aranda

I'm doing research interviews on women for my newest Book, From Menarche to Menopause: A Journey Through Time.

Each girl or woman will be asked questions about her First Period, and/or about her Menopause.   If you are a gentleman and would like to be included, that would also be perfect, as your perspective is important to women and to society.

Results will be tabulated in standard research format, and quotations may be used to document items.  By agreeing to the Interview, you agree that it may be published in any form, by me.  Generations of women Interviews are encouraged, so you may recruit your mother, sisters, grandmother, aunts, and/or daughters.

If you would like to be included, a formal process occurs.  There are two methods:
(1) For Interview permission by email: please email me at drmargaretaranda@yahoo.com, with the Subject Heading:  INTERVIEW.

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(2) Give permission for Interview inclusion in my book by simply providing recorded permission on the Interview telephone call.  In this case, please 'Comment' below, provide your Contact telephone number, and your Contact information will be kept confidential (i.e., it will not be published as a Comment).

Your answers may be used to benefit women's health, medicine, and society, and are considered to be a generous gift that will be safely guarded and professionally treated.   Sending you a sincere

From Menarche to Menopause: A Journey Through Time

by Dr. Margaret Aranda

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This is a Contest for the first 150 words of a Completed Manuscript

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AUTHOR'S NAME: Dr. Margaret Aranda

TITLE OF MANUSCRIPT: From Menses to Menarche: A Journey through Time

GENRE: Adult Non-Fiction

WORD COUNT: 120.000

Query:  

Femininity is equated with passages through the pagan symbolism of the Three Goddesses:  The Maiden, The Mother, and The Crone.   At Menarche, we had our First Talk.  At Motherhood, we didn't really need a formal 'talk'; it just happened over the course of months and years.  At Menopause, we had...we had our...we had our well, nothing.  We never had The Second Talk.  So many of us Baby Boomers are peri-menopausal, and what is a woman to do?  First, estrogens cause uterine cancer and breast cancer, then progesterone makes it better.  And what about testosterone for women?  

From Menses to Menopause starts with menstruation; its history, culture, and conceptions since the time of Aristotle.   Then it accompanies today's Spirited, Fit and Forty Woman's speedy life, fast-forwarded to the here and now.  Let's give you that Second Talk, ripe for today.  You do remember where you were when you started your first period, don't you?  You do remember who gave you The First Talk.  Well, sit right down and get the kids in another room.  Your journey through The Second Talk is about to begin.

First 150 Words:

My "First Talk" wasn't actually a "talk" talk.  I was 13 years old, and my Mother handed me a red hardcover book.  The Red Book.  I was told to turn to say, the seventh Chapter.  Okay, basic Anatomy.  The vagina was depicted in a large color illustration of the uterus and Fallopian tubes, and there was a small illustration of the penis. 

No preamble, no introduction, no warning.  Initially it was pretty boring.  A couple was sitting on the couch.  A married couple.  They made a big deal about that part.  Horrified, my eyes widened as the penis was inserted into the vagina.  What?  I had to read it over again.  How did that happen so fast?  What?  How did that happen so fast?  How could that happen with their clothes on?  I read it again.  They definitely still had their clothes on.