Women are being seen as a "bag of hormones", encompassing phases such as motherhood, postpartum, perimenopause, menopause and post-menopause. This perspective raises questions about how the female body and hormonal changes are used to explain women's behaviours and decisions.
The article questions whether what at one point served to excuse women from responsibility may now be turned against them. This analysis arises in the context of Lindsay Clancy's trial, raising concerns about how women may be judged when it is considered that their behaviours are influenced by hormones.
The reflection focuses on the tension between using the hormonal argument as a defence and the risk of that same argument being used to marginalise or discredit women in different contexts of life.
