Hot and bothered : women, medicine, and menopause in modern America / Judith A. Houck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houck, Judith A. (Judith Anne)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Menopause--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Menopause.

Menopause--Treatment--United States--History--20th century.

Middle-aged women--Health and hygiene--United States--History--20th century.

Middle-aged women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 representation of menopause has been profoundly influenced by biomedical developments and by changing roles for women and the changing definition of womanhood.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. "Menopause Is Not a Dangerous Time"

2. "Endocrine Perverts" and "Derailed Menopausics"

3. "Consider the Patient as a Woman and Not a Group of Glands"

4. "The Change Emancipates Women"

5. "Casting an Evil Spell over Her Once Happy Home"

6. "Why All the Fuss?"

7. Feminine Forever

8. "At the Will and Whim of My Hormones"

9. "What Do These Women Want?"

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-313) and index.

ISBN:

9780674038813

0674038819

OCLC:

842614155