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Encounters with aging : mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America

Title
Encounters with aging : mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America / Margaret Lock.
Author
Lock, Margaret M.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993], ©1993.

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xliv, 439 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-428) and index.
Contents
Prologue: Scientific Discourse and Aging Women -- Pt. 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" -- Pt. 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.
ISBN
0520082214 (alk. paper)
LCCN
93021379
OCLC
ocm28929326
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries