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Author : Debora A. Fletcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A Survey of Historic and Contemporary Perspectives on Menopause written by Debora A. Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth Formanek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134879415
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Meanings of Menopause written by Ruth Formanek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this scholarly compilation of a major event in the life of every woman, editor Ruth Formanek has adopted an avowedly multidisciplinary mandate: to illuminate menopause as both an event and a stage of life by gathering together a variety of discipline-specific meanings and research perspectives. The result is an admirably comprehensive study that not only charts the premodern meanings of menopause, but proceeds to examine menopause from current biomedical, endocrinological, culutral, and psychological perspectives. Ample attention is give to the psychosocial influences on menopause and to cross-cultural variations in the experience of, and life adjustments that follow, menopause. Societal and familial attitudes toward menopausal women are also explored through an examination of women in classical and modern literature. Clinical contributions review psychoanalytic perspectives on menopause, elucidate the individual meanings of the menopausal experience uncovered in therapy, and consider male views of menopausal women. Collectively, the contributors to this volume remedy the scant attention menopause has heretofore received in the psychological and psychotherapeutic literature. They not only explore the range of issues associated with menopause, but address these issues in the context of the various myths and superstitions about menopause that have endured over the centuries. Essential reading for students of human development, gender issues, and women's studies, The Meanings of Menopause is, for helping professionals, an invaluable source book on a life event fraught with psychological significance.
Author : Susan Mattern
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069121672X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Slow Moon Climbs written by Susan Mattern and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising look at the role of menopause in human history—and why we should change the ways we think about it Are the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Susan Mattern says yes and, in The Slow Moon Climbs, reveals just how wrong we have been. From the rainforests of Paraguay to the streets of Tokyo, Mattern draws on historical, scientific, and cultural research to show how perceptions of menopause developed from prehistory to today. Introducing new ways of understanding life beyond fertility, Mattern examines the fascinating “Grandmother Hypothesis,” looks at agricultural communities where households relied on postreproductive women for the family’s survival, and explores the emergence of menopause as a medical condition in the Western world. The Slow Moon Climbs casts menopause in the positive light it deserves—as an essential juncture and a key factor in human flourishing.
Author : Louise Foxcroft
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847086039
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Hot Flushes, Cold Science written by Louise Foxcroft and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two thousand years, attitudes to the menopause have created dread, shame and confusion. This meticulously researched and always entertaining book traces the history of 'the change of life' from its appearance in classical texts, via the medical literature of the eighteenth century, to up-to-the-minute contemporary clinical approaches. Its progression from natural phenomenon to full-blown pathological condition from the 1700s led to bizarre treatments and often dangerous surgery, and formalized a misogyny which lingers in the treatment of menopausal women today. Louise Foxcroft delves into the archives, the boudoir and the Gladstone bag to reveal the elements that formed the menopause myth: chauvinism, collusion, trial, error and secrecy. She challenges us to rethink absurd assumptions that have persisted through history - that sex stops at the menopause, or that ageing should be feared. It redresses the myths and captures the truths about menopause.
Author : G. Berg
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781850705444
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Modern Management of the Menopause: A Perspective for the 21st Century written by G. Berg and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1994-04-15 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently, the menopause and women's health are of rapidly growing concern worldwide. There is immense scientific interest in this field of healthcare and there is little doubt that menopause is to be recognized as one of the major health issues of our time. Today, the population growth of several developing countries is mainly among those over 50. In the developed world already, 15-20 percent of the population are women over 50. gave addresses at the VIIth International Congress of the Menopause. It covers vital aspects of middle-aged life by many of the leading researchers in the field, including demographic alterations, socio-cultural aspects, health perspectives and guidelines for the management of the menopause in the future. dedicated to research, health and education within the field of the menopause.
Author : Judith A. Houck
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674018969
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Hot and Bothered written by Judith A. Houck and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the experiences of an airman, a radio telephone operator, one of the many "ordinary people" who served their country in the Second World War.
Author : Lynnette Leidy Sievert
Publisher : Studies in Medical Anthropolog
ISBN 13 : 9780813538556
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Menopause written by Lynnette Leidy Sievert and published by Studies in Medical Anthropolog. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menopause is a biological reality for all women in their forties and fifties. Yet the way we think about the cessation of menstruation is influenced by a variety of factors. Cultural and technological influences combine with biology to transform this universal phenomenon into an experience that varies considerably between cultures and individuals. In this concise book, Lynnette Leidy Sievert draws on her own case studies from Puebla, Mexico, and western Massachusetts, as well as on comparative data from other studies in places such as Slovenia, Paraguay, and Hawaii, to explore the different ways that women experience menopause around the world. Sievert suggests that attempts by medical professionals to define the "normal" occurrence of menopause, including its typical onset and symptoms, may not be realistic when considering how lifestyle, nutrition, and workload can contribute to diverging realities. She explores how women feel about hysterectomies, chemotherapy, and other medical procedures and treatments that stop menstruation prematurely. She also considers recent advances in technology, including post-menopausal birth, which have turned what was previously an unavoidable end of fertility into something that can be postponed. A unique comparative look at women's experiences, this text brings new perspectives to the mainstream literature on the subject and invites readers to consider compelling questions about menopause, its meanings, and its future.
Author : Gabriella E. Berger
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Menopause and Culture written by Gabriella E. Berger and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An extremely significant contribution to the field of medical sociology ... Menopause is an area which has been somewhat neglected in social science discourse.' Dr Megan Jennaway, University of Queensland'Original ... well argued ... at the cutting edge of the field of sociology and health.' Dr Mina Roces, University of New South WalesIn Menopause and Culture, Gabriella Berger questions the view of menopause as an estrogen-deficiency disease by examining how other vital influences, such as culture, mediate the menopause transition. Her positive and refreshing approach culminates in a cross-cultural examination of Australian and Filipino women's menopause experiences and concludes in an elegant demonstration of how intricate sociocultural belief systems impact on menopause. Set against a broad review of current and often contradictory literature in the fields of biomedicine, psychiatry, psychology, anthropology and sociology, her findings serve to demystify long-held stereotypical and misogynist views of women as diseased and useless. Menopause is unequivocally more about wellness than illness: this is a book at the cutting edge of medical sociology.
Author : Wulf H. Utian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780838562970
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Menopause in Modern Perspective written by Wulf H. Utian and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Mae Voda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Changing Perspectives on Menopause written by Ann Mae Voda and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Mae Voda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608222943
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Changing Perspectives on Menopause written by Ann Mae Voda and published by . This book was released on with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth Formanek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134879342
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Meanings of Menopause written by Ruth Formanek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this scholarly compilation of a major event in the life of every woman, editor Ruth Formanek has adopted an avowedly multidisciplinary mandate: to illuminate menopause as both an event and a stage of life by gathering together a variety of discipline-specific meanings and research perspectives. The result is an admirably comprehensive study that not only charts the premodern meanings of menopause, but proceeds to examine menopause from current biomedical, endocrinological, culutral, and psychological perspectives. Ample attention is give to the psychosocial influences on menopause and to cross-cultural variations in the experience of, and life adjustments that follow, menopause. Societal and familial attitudes toward menopausal women are also explored through an examination of women in classical and modern literature. Clinical contributions review psychoanalytic perspectives on menopause, elucidate the individual meanings of the menopausal experience uncovered in therapy, and consider male views of menopausal women. Collectively, the contributors to this volume remedy the scant attention menopause has heretofore received in the psychological and psychotherapeutic literature. They not only explore the range of issues associated with menopause, but address these issues in the context of the various myths and superstitions about menopause that have endured over the centuries. Essential reading for students of human development, gender issues, and women's studies, The Meanings of Menopause is, for helping professionals, an invaluable source book on a life event fraught with psychological significance.
Author : Elyse Ann Barnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Perceptions of Menopause written by Elyse Ann Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret M. Lock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520916623
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Encounters with Aging written by Margaret M. Lock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-20 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a richly detailed account of Japanese women's lives. The result offers irrefutable evidence that the experience and meanings—even the endocrinological changes—associated with female midlife are far from universal. Rather, Lock argues, they are the product of an ongoing dialectic between culture and local biologies. Japanese focus on middle-aged women as family members, and particularly as caretakers of elderly relatives. They attach relatively little importance to the end of menstruation, seeing it as a natural part of the aging process and not a diseaselike state heralding physical decline and emotional instability. Even the symptoms of midlife are different: Japanese women report few hot flashes, for example, but complain frequently of stiff shoulders. Articulate, passionate, and carefully documented, Lock's study systematically undoes the many preconceptions about aging women in two distinct cultural settings. Because it is rooted in the everyday lives of Japanese women, it also provides an excellent entree to Japanese society as a whole. Aging and menopause are subjects that have been closeted behind our myths, fears, and misconceptions. Margaret Lock's cross-cultural perspective gives us a critical new lens through which to examine our assumptions.
Author : Chris Bobel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811506140
Total Pages : 1041 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies written by Chris Bobel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across the life course?” The chapters—diverse in content, form and perspective—establish Critical Menstruation Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical dimensions. This handbook is an unmatched resource for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and activists new to and already familiar with the field as it rapidly develops and expands.
Author : Nancy R. Hooyman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550219
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Living Through Loss written by Nancy R. Hooyman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Through Loss provides a foundational identification of the many ways in which people experience loss over the life course, from childhood to old age. It examines the interventions most effective at each phase of life, combining theory, sound clinical practice, and empirical research with insights emerging from powerful accounts of personal experience. The authors emphasize that loss and grief are universal yet highly individualized. Loss comes in many forms and can include not only a loved one’s death but also divorce, adoption, living with chronic illness, caregiving, retirement and relocation, or being abused, assaulted, or otherwise traumatized. They approach the topic from the perspective of the resilience model, which acknowledges people’s capacity to find meaning in their losses and integrate grief into their lives. The book explores the varying roles of age, race, culture, sexual orientation, gender, and spirituality in responses to loss. Presenting a variety of models, approaches, and resources, Living Through Loss offers invaluable lessons that can be applied in any practice setting by a wide range of human service and health care professionals. This second edition features new and expanded content on diversity and trauma, including discussions of gun violence, police brutality, suicide, and an added focus on systemic racism.
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Total Pages : 540 pages
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