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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... menses , has almost no impact on subsequent perceived physical or mental health . .. ( McKinlay , 1989 ; McKinlay and Avis , 1989 , p . 1 ) . This is by no means the only view , as menopause is now being studied xii PREFACE.
... menses within the climacteric phase . Within the climacteric , women can be classified as to pre- , post- , or perimenopausal , depending on their menstrual status . PRE - 19TH CENTURY VIEWS : GALEN TO THE 18TH CENTURY Probably the ...
... menses and their eventual cessation . To him , nature ran along mathematical lines : since the menses usually begin at the " second Septenary ... they cease at the seventh , or the square of the number seven " ( p . 1 ) . Change in ...
... menses should decrease with increasing age . These views of the menopause clearly predate its later medicaliza- tion : Since it is as nature ordered , " no very bad symptoms happen in elderly Women , although the Menses should be ...
... menses is due to two causes , they wrote : " violent passions of the mind , and the application of cold to the surface of the body " ( Burns , 1820 , p . 124 ) . Some women believed they were " with child , " rather than suppose they ...
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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 |