SOURCE: “Hagiography,” in New Statesman and Society, October 11, 1991, p. 23.

In the following review, Maitland offers positive evaluation of The Change, though finds fault in Greer's lack of practical instruction.

I am 41 years old; my menstrual cycle, which for over 20 years has behaved with discreet but impeccable regularity, has recently turned funny on me; I have odd pains in my wrist, and attacks of savage ill temper; my lovely daughter has left school, started being kind to me and departed for Paris. I am full of strange regrets (that I didn't have eight children, that I didn't become a contemplative nun) and strange desires (to live alone in the country, to scream very loudly in supermarkets). Last week I bought the shortest skirt I have worn since 1970. A woman not just of a “certain”, but of a “dangerous” age.

Now what? I ask, along with others who entered female...