anxiety, depression, and concerns about weight and appearance tend to cluster around puberty, pregnancy, perimenopause, and menopause. These stage-of-life changes, we never cease to be reminded, involve hormones, but they are all also times in which girls and women find themselves in the crosshairs of objectification, social inequality, and, often, intense and unacknowledged anger. Therapeutic approaches to managing emotional distress focus mainly on “fixing” the individual through behavior modification rather than addressing considerations of anger and power.
