Taking off masks and vocalising menopause

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21394498
AutoresEmma Franks (Independent Dance, autor de correspondencia)
Año2026
Volumen74
Número4
Páginas841-853
Fecha de publicación2026-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00380261261452017
OpenAlexW7167502870
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas23

This article demonstrates the lasting value of C.W. Mills’ sociological imagination in understanding how intimate bodily realities and biography intersect with, and are shaped by, larger social realities, and the agency we have as individuals to affect these realities – in my case, through art. In this autoethnographic piece, I discuss my personal journey, as a feminist artist, of reimagining menopause through the dismantling of my artistic practice and creation of the Menopause Punk Song . I situate my journey within intergenerational dynamics, as well as the broader social realities and structures, including gendered ageism, body appearance pressures, the cultural moment of menopause’s visibility, art as a practice and the Covid-19 pandemic, which coincided with my menopause. I consider the frustrations and critiques that animated the Menopause Punk Song art project and the pleasures and problems its creation and performance entailed

Affect (linguistics) · Agency (philosophy) · Biography · Menopause · Punk · Reflexivity · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism