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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... Literature 255 Marilyn Maxwell 11. Reflections of Self and Other : Men's Views of Menopausal Women 281 Suzanne B. Phillips Author Index Subject Index 297 311 Acknowledgments I am grateful to all those who shared their vi CONTENTS.
... men- tioned . Middle and old age - in both women and men - have barely been studied , in contrast to the wealth of information available on infancy , childhood , and adolescence . Aging seems to evoke a fear of death , as well it might ...
... men- struation and menopause , as well as clinical studies of both menopausal women and their spouses , and the treatment of meno- pausal women in English and American literature . We hope that our book will contribute to the dialogue ...
... men and women because it will enhance women's understanding of the workings of their bodies , aid the population at large in the overcoming of stereotypes about middle - aged women , and call atten- tion to the dangers resulting from ...
... men's experiences , and women's particular ways of feeling , knowing , and judging must be acknowledged . Uniquely female experiences - men- struation , pregnancy , menopause - must be assessed rather than de- nied and minimized ...
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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 |