Reinterpreting menopause : : cultural and philosophical issues / [electronic resource] / edited by Paul A. Komesaroff, Philipa Rothfield, and Jeanne Daly.. — New York, N.Y. : : Routledge,, 1997.. — vi, 280 p. : : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
: Mapping menopause: objectivity or multiplicity? / : Left hand of the Goddess: the silencing of menopause as a bodily experience of transition / : Menopausal embodiment / : Medicine and the moral space of the monopausal woman / : Revolting women: women in revolt / : Resisting pathologies of age and race: menopause and cosmetic surgery in films by Rainer and Tom / : Gynopathia sexualis: theories of decline in biology and aesthetics / : Facing change: women speaking about midlife / : Menopause as magic marker: discursive consolidation in the United States, and strategies for cultural combat / : Situating menopause withing the strategies of power: a genealogy / : Sources of abjection in western responses to menopause / : Woman in the menopausal body / : Menopause and the great divide: biomedicine, feminism, and cyborg politics / Paul A. Komesaroff ... [et al.] -- Fiona Mackie -- Philipa Rothfield -- Paul A. Komesaroff -- Mia Campioni -- E. Ann Kaplan -- Robyn Gardner -- Jeanne Daly -- Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- Roe Sybylla -- Wendy Rogers -- Emily Martin -- Kwok Wei Leng.
Анотація: Reinterpreting Menopause brings together a number of reflections from a broad range of areas including feminism, cultural studies, clinical medicine, sociology, philosophy, and political science and includes the voices and experiences of menopausal women themselves. In an innovative series of essays, current thinking about medicine, society, and the body is critically examined. Particular attention is given to the medical representations of menopause, biology and aging, the history of medical approaches to women, and the tensions between bio-medical models and other explanations of menopause. The issues of hormonal therapies are explored in the context of the connections between women, medicine, representations, and cultural politics.