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Musings on perimenopause and menopause identity, experience, transition /

A woman muses about buying lovely new panties; another journeys inward and outward to redefine her life, a blogger offers information, support, and community to perimenopausal women; researchers uncover myths and misconceptions about migrant and refugee women's experiences of menopause; a geron...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dillaway, Heather (Editor ), Wershler, Laura, 1953- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction A Reading Guide to Musings / Laura Wershler and Heather Dillaway
  • Section One MENO-TYPICAL
  • Chapter 1 The Anatomy of a Hot Flash / Beth Osnes.
  • Chapter 2 Gone Girl: The Menopause in Popular Culture / Mary Jane Lupton
  • Chapter 3 Myths and Misconceptions: Migrant and Refugee Women's Constructions and Experiences of Menopause / Jane Ussher, Alexandra Hawkey and Janette Perz
  • Chapter 4 The SWAN Study: Gender, Race, Identity, and Menopause
  • Chapter 5 Slouching towards Menopause / Joanne Gilbert
  • Section Two OUT OF STEP
  • Chapter 6 Before Your Time: When Menopause Comes Too Soon / Evelina W. Sterling, Christine Eads, Starr Vuchetich and Catherine M. Gordon
  • Chapter 7 Shadow Story / Yolanda Kauffman
  • Chapter 8 Just before Menopause / Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
  • Chapter 9 Patches Not Pads: An Intersex Experience with Postsurgical (Pseudo) Menopause / Georgiann Davis and Koyel Khan
  • Section Three BLOOD RELATIONS
  • Chapter 10 Waiting for Seventeen Days / Heather Dillaway
  • Chapter 11 "Dear Magnolia... Nobody Really Understands... What Can I Do?": Reflections on a Perimenopausal Blog as Social Support / Gillian Anderson
  • Chapter 12 Finding Bedrock / Marie Maccagno
  • Chapter 13 Menopause Claimed / Laura Wershler
  • Section Four UNLEASHED
  • Chapter 14 Harsh Blessings: On Finding Poetry at Fifty / Magali Roy-Féquière
  • Chapter 15 Uninhabitable Lives: Narrative Strategies of Menopause Experience in Notes on a Scandal and Carol / Sylvie Teillay-Gambaudo
  • Chapter 16 Perimenopause: The Body, Mind, and Spirit in Transition / Victoria Team
  • Chapter 17 From the Crowning to the Crone: Extrapolating Judy Chicago's Birth Project to Older Women / Anne Barrett
  • Chapter 18 All New Panties / Cayo Gamber
  • Conclusion Advancing Our Perspectives on the Menopausal Experience / Heather Dillaway and Laura Wershler
  • Notes on Contributors.