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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... uterus or the heat or cold of the humors inside the uterus , or excessive dryness of their complexion , or being awake too much , thinking too much , being too angry or too sad , or eating too little " ( p . 61 ) . In this medieval ...
... uterus was the most suitable of all the vessels in a woman's body for the discharge of the blood . However , in cases of suppression , when the vessels of the uterus had become tenacious and blocked passage of the blood , " the ...
... uterus would be too strong for the momentum of the blood to break through them . Thus , nature has wisely ordered that the menses should decrease with increasing age . These views of the menopause clearly predate its later medicaliza ...
... uterus and , later , that of the ovaries , and viewed women's internal organs as engaged in competition for the limited quantity of blood available . Although a man's sexual activity could deplete his body of fluids , and thus of energy ...
... for their pure and pious nature and their civilizing influence over men. The woman's uterus, an organ of great power, he believed, influences her whole constitution. He wondered “whether she was not " 1 made in order that it [ i.e. ,
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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 |