Robert Wilson chose to send his own message with a sledgehammer rather than with flowers. He argued that menopause should be recognized as a “serious, painful and often crippling disease,” turning its sufferers into what he disdainfully described as “castrates.” Anne Fausto-Sterling, professor of biology and gender studies at Brown University, who has written about his work, describes his disparaging depictions of “estrogen-starved women.” They are portrayed as existing rather than living, she says. Pictures that he includes in one of his published papers show elderly women walking along in
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