Hot and Bothered
Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America
Published on 1. July 2009
342 pages
978-0-674-03881-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03881-3 (9780674038813)
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03/2008
Harvard University Press
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Person
Judith A. Houck is Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Departments of Women's Studies, Medical History and Bioethics, and History of Science, as well as at the Center for Women's Health Research.
Content
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 "Menopause Is Not a Dangerous Time "Medicine, Menopause, and the New Woman, 1897-1937 2 "Endocrine Perverts" and "Derailed Menopausics" Gender Transgressions and Mental Disturbances, 1897-1937 3 "Consider the Patient as a Woman and Nota Group of Glands "Women, Menopause, and the Medical Encounter, 1938-1962 4 "The Change Emancipates Women "Menopause, Domesticity, and Liberation in the Popular Literature,1938-1962 6 "Why All the Fuss?" Middle-Class Women and the Denial of the Menopausal Body,1938-1962 7 Feminine ForeverRobert A. Wilson and the Hormonal Revolution, 1963-1980 8 "At the Will and Whim of My Hormones" Women, Menopause, and the Hormonal Dilemma, 1963-1980 9 "What Do These Women Want?" Feminists Respond to Feminine Forever, 1963-1980 EpilogueMenopause at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Notes Index
