The Meanings of Menopause: Historical, Medical, and Cultural PerspectivesRuth Formanek Routledge, 13 ¾.¤. 2013 - 320 ˹éÒ 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. |
¨Ò¡´éÒ¹ã¹Ë¹Ñ§Ê×Í
¼Å¡Òäé¹ËÒ 1 - 5 ¨Ò¡ 76
... treatment of meno- pausal women in English and American literature . We hope that our book will contribute to the dialogue on menopause across disciplines and thus advance knowledge . Personal experience motivates and propels many books ...
... treatment of menopause as a disease . Goodman pays special attention to recent large - scale popula- tion studies of middle - aged women . Cheryl L. Bowles , in chapter 7 , discusses the difference between experience and symptom , the ...
... treat- ments for menopausal symptoms , their side effects , and possible alternative treatments . Malkah T. Notman , in chapter 9 , suggests that we reconsider ( 1 ) those attributes thought to be characteristically feminine and ( 2 ) ...
... or two as though dead . And sometimes they have dizziness with great confusion in the brain and think that everything is turned upside down ... [ p . 63 ] . Treatment for amenorrhea included blood - letting at the veins 6 RUTH FORMANEK.
... treatment . In contrast to these older themes , 18th - century perceptions of menstruation and menopause were influenced by a commitment to logic and direct observation of nature , although the views of Galen persisted . The first book ...
à¹×éÍËÒ
II Psychosocial CrossCultural and Research Perspectives | 78 |
III Endocrinology Clinical and Experiential Studies and Literary Aspects | 176 |
Author Index | 297 |
Subject Index | 311 |
©ºÑºÍ×è¹æ - ´Ù·Ñé§ËÁ´
The Meanings of Menopause: Historical, Medical, and Cultural Perspectives Ruth Formanek ªÁºÒ§Êèǹ¢Í§Ë¹Ñ§Ê×Í - 2013 |