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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... confirmation of Freudian psycho- sexual stages on which it was based . Benedek's attempted integration of the newly emerging knowledge of hormones with a menopausal woman's emotional life now seems reductionistic . On the other xvi PREFACE.
... sexuality from reproductive capacity , via modern contraceptives , has cleared up . Loss of fertility does not mean loss of desire and fulfillment . But it does entail a change , a change involving matters even more important - if I may ...
... sexually potent fertile female , and then went through menopause . She has given birth several times and faced death several times - the same times . She is facing the final birth / death a little more nearly and clearly every day now ...
... sexual desire is affected by amenorrhea and will influence the health of an infant ; ( 4 ) a healthy lifestyle is beneficial ; ( 5 ) symptoms are pervasive and include neurological ones , and ( 6 ) bleeding is the most effective ...
... sexual activity could deplete his body of fluids , and thus of energy , sexual expression was partly under the control of his will ; whereas menstruation and menopause were uncontrolled , unpredictable , mysterious , simulta- neously 12 ...
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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 |