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.…mehr
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. Contributors include: E. Ann Kaplan, Emily Martin, Mia Campioni, Fiona Mackie, Roe Sybylla, Wendy Rogers, Kwok Lei Leng, Margaret Morganroth Gullette and Robyn Gardner.
Paul Komesaroff is a clinical endocrinologist and director at a center for the Study of Medicine, Society and Law. He is the author of Objectivity, Science and Society (Routledge, 1986) Philipa Rothfield and Jeanne Daly teach at Latrobe University. Daly is also the editor of Designs, Dilemmas and Disciplines (Routledge, 1992.)
Inhaltsangabe
Part 1 Introduction Chapter 1 Mapping Menopause, Paul A. Komesaroff, Philipa Rothfield, Jeanne Daly Part 2 Menopausal Bodies Chapter 2 The Left Hand of the Goddess, Fiona Mackie Chapter 3 Menopausal Embodiment, Philipa Rothfield Chapter 4 Medicine and the Moral Space of the Menopausal Woman, Paul A. Komesaroff Part 3 Politics of the Symbolic Chapter 5 Revolting Women, Mia Campioni Chapter 6 Resisting Pathologies of Age and Race, E. Ann Kaplan Chapter 7 Gynopathia Sexualis, Robyn Gardner Part 4 Discursive Strategies Chapter 8 Facing Change, Jeanne Daly Chapter 9 Menopause as Magic Marker, Margaret Morganroth Gullette Chapter 10 Situating Menopause within the Strategies of Power, Roe Sybylla Part 5 Metaphors and Mutations Chapter 11 Sources of Abjection in Western Responses to Menopause, Wendy Rogers Chapter 12 The Woman in the Menopausal Body, Emily Martin Chapter 13 Menopause and the Great Divide, Kwok Wei Leng
Part 1 Introduction Chapter 1 Mapping Menopause, Paul A. Komesaroff, Philipa Rothfield, Jeanne Daly Part 2 Menopausal Bodies Chapter 2 The Left Hand of the Goddess, Fiona Mackie Chapter 3 Menopausal Embodiment, Philipa Rothfield Chapter 4 Medicine and the Moral Space of the Menopausal Woman, Paul A. Komesaroff Part 3 Politics of the Symbolic Chapter 5 Revolting Women, Mia Campioni Chapter 6 Resisting Pathologies of Age and Race, E. Ann Kaplan Chapter 7 Gynopathia Sexualis, Robyn Gardner Part 4 Discursive Strategies Chapter 8 Facing Change, Jeanne Daly Chapter 9 Menopause as Magic Marker, Margaret Morganroth Gullette Chapter 10 Situating Menopause within the Strategies of Power, Roe Sybylla Part 5 Metaphors and Mutations Chapter 11 Sources of Abjection in Western Responses to Menopause, Wendy Rogers Chapter 12 The Woman in the Menopausal Body, Emily Martin Chapter 13 Menopause and the Great Divide, Kwok Wei Leng
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