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"In recent years, there has been extensive analysis of the health effects of menopause and the safety and efficacy of the various ""treatments"". There has also been rising concern about the appropriation and pathologization of menopause by medicine and its effects on women. At the same time, however, there has been relatively little reflection on the social, cultural, philosophical and ethical issues raised by both menopause itself and the way it has been handled by medicine. This text 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 examined critically. Particular attention is given to the medical representations of menopause, biology and ageing, the history of medical approaches to women and the tensions between bio-medical models and other explanations of menopause. The issue of hormonal therapies is explored in the context of the connections between women, medicine, representation and cultural politics."

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Author:   Paul Komesaroff ,  Philipa Rothfield ,  Jeanne Daly ,  Jeanne Daly (Latrobe University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9780415915656

ISBN 10:   0415915651
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 April 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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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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.)

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