SOURCE: “The Transit of Woman,” in New York Times Book Review, October 11, 1992, pp. 1, 32-3.

In the following review, Angier offers favorable analysis of The Change, though finds fault in Greer's “loose and flippant” medical recommendations and attacks on the healthcare establishment.

This is a brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, bruising, exasperating fury of a book, broadly researched, boundlessly insightful and yet so haphazardly presented that this reader was driven more than once to slam shut the volume and curse the author for what seemed like a willful lack of discipline. It may not be fair to judge Germaine Greer for having failed to produce the book one wishes she had written, but The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause is so tantalizingly close to being a potential feminist classic on a par with The Female Eunuch (1970) that one cannot help seeing its repeated lapses into muddiness as almost tragic.

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