Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America

Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America
ISBN-10
0674038819
ISBN-13
9780674038813
Series
Hot and Bothered
Category
Medical
Pages
342
Language
English
Published
2009-06-30
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Judith A HOUCK

Description

How did menopause change from being a natural (and often welcome) end to a woman's childbearing years to a deficiency disease in need of medical and pharmacological intervention? By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and representation of menopause has been profoundly influenced by biomedical developments and by changing roles for women and the changing definition of womanhood.

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