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Encounters with aging : mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America / Margaret Lock.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lock, Margaret M.
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle-aged women--Japan.
- Middle-aged women.
- Middle-aged women--North America.
- Menopause--Japan.
- Menopause.
- Menopause--North America.
- Adult.
- Sociology.
- Climacteric.
- Culture.
- Persons.
- Social Sciences.
- Age Groups.
- Reproductive Physiological Phenomena.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Sexual Development.
- Names.
- Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena.
- Anthropology.
- Social Environment.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
- Women.
- Middle Aged.
- Medical Subjects:
- Adult.
- Sociology.
- Climacteric.
- Culture.
- Persons.
- Social Sciences.
- Age Groups.
- Reproductive Physiological Phenomena.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Sexual Development.
- Names.
- Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena.
- Anthropology.
- Menopause.
- Social Environment.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
- Women.
- Middle Aged.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xliv, 439 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a detailed account of Japanese women's lives.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Scientific Discourse and Aging Women
- PART I JAPAN: MATURITY AND KŌNENKI
- 1. The The Turn of Life—Unstable Meanings
- 2. Probabilities and Kōnenki
- 3. Resignation, Resistance, Satisfaction—Narratives of Maturity
- 4. The Pathology of Modernity
- 5. Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Family
- 6. Illusion of Indolence—Ideology and Partial Truths
- 7. Odd Women Out
- 8. Controlled Selves and Tempered Bodies
- 9. Peering Behind the Platitudes—Rituals of Resistance
- 10. The Doctoring of Kōnenki
- "Invisible Messengers"
- PART II: FROM DODGING TIME TO DEFICIENCY DISEASE
- 11. The Making of Menopause
- 12. Against Nature—Menopause as Herald of Decay
- "An Act of Freedom"
- Epilogue: The Politics of Aging—Flashes of Immortality
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-428) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520916623
- 052091662X
- 9780585131054
- 0585131058
- OCLC:
- 326336080
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb04079 hdl
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