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How did menopause change from being a natural (and often welcome) end to a woman's childbearing years to a deficiency disease in need of medical and pharmacological intervention? By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Houck, Judith A. (Judith Anne) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
Temas:
1900-1999
Menopause > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Menopause > Treatment > United States > History > 20th century.
Middle-aged women > Health and hygiene > United States > History > 20th century.
Menopause.
Menopause
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
History, 20th Century
Women > history
Ménopause > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Ménopause > Traitement > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes d'âge moyen > Santé et hygiène > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Ménopause.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
MEDICAL > Reproductive Medicine & Technology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Women's Health.
MEDICAL > History.
Menopause > Social aspects
Middle-aged women > Health and hygiene
Menopauze.
Medicalisering.
Sociale geschiedenis.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Menopause is not a dangerous time:" medicine menopause, and the new woman, 1897-1937
  • "Endocrine perverts" and "Derailed menopausics:" gender transgressions and mental disturbances, 1897-1937
  • "Consider the patient as a woman and not a group of glands:" women, menopause, and the medical encounter, 1938-1962
  • "The Change emancipates women:" menopause, domesticity, and liberation in the popular literature, 1938-1962
  • "Casting an evil spell over her once happy home:" menopause as a family disease, 1938-1962
  • "Why all the fuss?:" middle-class women and the denial of the menopausal body, 1938-1962
  • Feminine forever: Robert A. Wilson and the hormonal revolution, 1963-1980
  • "At the will and whim of my hormones:" women, menopause, and the hormonal dilemma, 1963-1980
  • "What do these women want?:" feminists respond to feminine forever, 1963-1980
  • Epilogue: menopause at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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