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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... problem to the researcher since it is neither uniformly described nor universally experienced, and positive evidence of its actual occurrence is not immediately available for study. Yet the study of menopause is of critical value in ...
... problems.” On exploration, it becomes clear that these problems were not caused by menopause, but rather illustrate the great variety of issues that women patients bring to therapy. In chapter 10, Marilyn Maxwell offers a literary ...
... problems still lives on, leading many women to expect depression to strike when they enter menopause. Even though sex hormones were discovered more than half a century ago, and both menstruation and menopause can now be adequately ...
... problems . The suppression of 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 ...
... problems increased. As families limited their size and medicine began to add years to life, the job of mother constituted a smaller and smaller fraction of the lifespan. Old age had had a respected place in the old days but now had lost ...
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Susan E Bell | |
Helena Harris | |
Psychosocial Influences and Life Events at the Time of the Menopause | |
Aging into Transitions CrossCultural Perspectives on Women at Midlife | |
The Biomedical Study of Menopause | |
The Menopausal Experience Sociocultural Influences and Theoretical | |
Endocrinology of Menopause | |
Varieties of Menopausal Experience Case Histories | |
Portraits of Menopausal Women in Selected Works of English | |
Reflections of Self and Other Mens Views of Menopausal Women | |
Author Index | |
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The Meanings of Menopause: Historical, Medical, and Cultural Perspectives Ruth Formanek ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2013 |