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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ผลการค้นหา 1 - 5 จาก 75
... Influences and Life Events at the Time of the Menopause J. G. Greene 5. Aging into Transitions : Cross - Cultural Perspectives on Women at Midlife Nancy Datan 6. The Biomedical Study of Menopause Madeleine J. Goodman 7. The Menopausal ...
... influenced and defined by the culture in which they are found ( Flint and Samil , 1989 ) . Nonmedical and medical researchers , as well as feminists , emphasized the menopausal woman's need for information , either directly from ...
... influential until the discovery of sex hormones in the 1920s . In the 19th century , women were viewed as frail and ill . These views changed after the rise of feminism and women were permitted to enter medical schools . The ...
... influence on the course of menopause . The object relations model underlies Lax's conceptualiza- tion of the ... influences are associated with an increase in nonspecific symptoms around the time of menopause , including low socioeco ...
... influence of old fears of the suppression of menstruation ( amenorrhea ) , especially that the blood not discharged ... influential in deter- mining women's self - perceptions , expectations , and self - experience and thus created a new ...
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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 |