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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... role of women's attitudes to the menopause , and those examining the effects of interpersonal factors within the woman's family and social situa- tion . Studies using the methods of life event research are also exam- ined . A variety of ...
... role carried many meanings and was the basis , at least in part , of his prestige . But evidence of the beginning of the woman's procreative capacity — menstruation - was kept hidden , as was its end- ing . Menopause , moreover , was ...
... could do what heretofore women had done - spinning , weaving , sewing . Women's traditional domestic role was being assumed by immigrant servants . Middle - class families began to limit their size ; 10 RUTH FORMANEK.
... role as mothers . While men's freedom to move became part of their self - identification , wo- men's expected passivity led them to doubt their own adequacy . The more men succeeded in the world , the less middle - class women were ...
... Role in the Popular Perception of Menopause An influential idea underlying 19th - century medical conceptualiza- tions was derived from classical mechanics . It viewed the body as a closed - energy system in which all organs competed ...
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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 |