The Meanings of Menopause: Historical, Medical, and Cultural PerspectivesRuth Formanek Routledge, 13 พ.ค. 2013 - 320 หน้า 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. |
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... female , especially when you get older , it's difficult to escape the name calling . In view of the many negative perceptions of women in general , and of menopausal women in particular , it is not surprising that young people fear the ...
... Female Sex , that they who are by Nature destined to be the preservers of the human Race , should at the same time be made liable to so many Diseases . . . The author was a then - famous physician and mathematician , John Freind , whose ...
... female troubles , " both mental and physical . Menopause was believed not only to render a woman vulnerable to depression , but to increase her chances of serious illness , especially cancer . By the end of the 19th century , feminist ...
... female experiences - men- struation , pregnancy , menopause - must be assessed rather than de- nied and minimized . Menopause has been subject to distortions and misconceptions , thought of as a loss and evoking mourning . Any ...
... female maturity . The significance of maturity now is not the capacity to conceive but the mere ability to have sex . As this ability is shared by pubescents and by postclimacterics , the blurring of distinctions and elimination of op ...
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II Psychosocial CrossCultural and Research Perspectives | 78 |
III Endocrinology Clinical and Experiential Studies and Literary Aspects | 176 |
Author Index | 297 |
Subject Index | 311 |
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The Meanings of Menopause: Historical, Medical, and Cultural Perspectives Ruth Formanek ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2013 |