Encounters with aging : mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America
Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a detailed account of Japanese women's lives
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: Scientific Discourse and Aging Women PART I JAPAN: MATURITY AND KONENKI 1 The Turn of Life-Unstable Meanings 2 Probabilities and Konenki 3 Resignation, Resistance, Satisfaction- Narratives of Maturity 4 The Pathology of Modernity 5 Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Family 6 Illusion of Indolence-Ideology and Partial Truths 7 Odd Women Out 8 Controlled Selves and Tempered Bodies 9 Peering Behind the Platitudes-Rituals of Resistance 10 The Doctoring of Konenki "Invisible Messengers" PART II FROM DODGING TIME TO DEFICIENCY DISEASE 11 The Making of Menopause 12 Against Nature-Menopause as Herald of Decay "An Act of Freedom" Epilogue: The Politics of Aging- Flashes of Immortality Notes Bibliography Index
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