1. See Marjorie Ferguson, Forever Feminine: Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Femininity (London: Heinemann, 1983) for an overview of twentieth-century women’s magazines.
2. Louise Foxcroft, Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause (Granta, 2009), p. 199.
3. E. Schleyer-Saunders, ‘Hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms’, The Lancet, 2 (1973), 389. See the same author, ‘Ageing, monoamines, and monoamine-oxidase levels’, The Lancet (1972), 634.
4. Robert A. Wilson, Feminine Forever (New York: M. Evans, 1966). Page references will follow the relevant quotation in the text.
5. R. A. Wilson and T. Wilson, ‘The fate of nontreated post-menopausal women: A plea for the maintenance of adequate estrogen from puberty to the grave’, Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 11 (1963), 347–62 (p. 362).