| Description |
vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Mapping Menopause: Objectivity or Multiplicity? / Paul A. Komesaroff, Philipa Rothfield and Jeanne Daly -- 2. The Left Hand of the Goddess: The Silencing of Menopause as a Bodily Experience of Transition / Fiona Mackie -- 3. Menopausal Embodiment / Philipa Rothfield -- 4. Medicine and the Moral Space of the Menopausal Woman / Paul A. Komesaroff -- 5. Revolting Women: Women in Revolt / Mia Campioni -- 6. Resisting Pathologies of Age and Race: Menopause and Cosmetic Surgery in Films by Rainer and Tom / E. Ann Kaplan -- 7. Gynopathia Sexuality: Theories of Decline in Biology and Aesthetics / Robyn Gardner -- 8. Facing Change: Women Speaking about Midlife / Jeanne Daly -- 9. Menopause as Magic Marker: Discursive Consolidation in the United States, and Strategies for Cultural Combat / Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- 10. Situating Menopause within the Strategies of Power: A Genealogy / Roe Sybylla -- 11. Sources of Abjection in Western Responses to Menopause / Wendy Rogers |
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12. The Woman in the Menopausal Body / Emily Martin -- 13. Menopause and the Great Divide: Biomedicine, Feminism, and Cyborg Politics / Kwok Wei Leng |
| Summary |
Reinterpreting Menopause brings together a number of reflections from a broad range of areas including feminism, cultural studies, clinical medicine, sociology, philosophy, and political science and includes the voices and experiences of menopausal women themselves. In an innovative series of essays, current thinking about medicine, society, and the body is critically examined. Particular attention is given to the medical representations of menopause, biology and aging, the history of medical approaches to women, and the tensions between bio-medical models and other explanations of menopause. The issues of hormonal therapies are explored in the context of the connections between women, medicine, representations, and cultural politics |
| Analysis |
Menopause |
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Middle aged women |
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Women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Menopause.
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Middle-aged women -- Health and hygiene.
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Middle-aged women -- Psychology.
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Women.
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Menopause.
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Women.
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Menopause.
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Women.
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| Author |
Daly, Jeanne.
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Komesaroff, Paul A.
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Rothfield, Philipa.
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| LC no. |
96028892 |
| ISBN |
0415915643 |
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0415915651 |
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