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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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- Description
- xliv, 439 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- 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