Encounters With Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan & North America
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2003
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: Scientific Discourse and Aging Women PART 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" PART 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 Notes Bibliography Index
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