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After getting a hysterectomy in her early 40s, poet and writer Sarah Jane Barnett was prompted to examine what “being a woman” really means. What started as a personal writing project quickly turned into a manifesto-of-sorts for women entering this middle-phase of life. The result is Barnett’s third book, Notes on Womanhood.
In this exploration of womanhood, Barnett looks back at the devastation she inflicted on herself as a young woman, the invisibility she feels as her youth fades, the power of female friendship, and how being the daughter of a transgender woman changed her ideas of womanhood.
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