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Encounters with aging: mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America

Margaret M Lock c1993 © University of California Press
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  • 9780520201620 (paper)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Prologue: Scientific Discourse and Aging Women (page xiv)
  • PART I JAPAN: MATURITY AND KŌNENKI (page 1)
    • 1 The The Turn of Life—Unstable Meanings (page 3)
    • 2 Probabilities and Kōnenki (page 31)
    • 3 Resignation, Resistance, Satisfaction—Narratives of Maturity (page 46)
    • 4 The Pathology of Modernity (page 78)
    • 5 Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Family (page 107)
    • 6 Illusion of Indolence—Ideology and Partial Truths (page 135)
    • 7 Odd Women Out (page 171)
    • 8 Controlled Selves and Tempered Bodies (page 202)
    • 9 Peering Behind the Platitudes—Rituals of Resistance (page 233)
    • 10 The Doctoring of Kōnenki (page 256)
    • "Invisible Messengers" (page 299)
  • PART II FROM DODGING TIME TO DEFICIENCY DISEASE (page 301)
    • 11 The Making of Menopause (page 303)
    • 12 Against Nature—Menopause as Herald of Decay (page 330)
    • "An Act of Freedom" (page 368)
    • Epilogue: The Politics of Aging—Flashes of Immortality (page 370)
  • Notes (page 389)
  • Bibliography (page 401)
  • Index (page 429)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MAQ 9.2 (Jun. 1995): 284-286 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0745-5194%28199506%292%3A9%3A2%3C284%3AEWAMOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J
JRAI 2.1 (Mar. 1996): 185-186 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1359-0987%28199603%292%3A1%3C185%3AEWAMOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
MN 49.3 (Autumn 1994): 382-384 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-0741%28199423%2949%3A3%3C382%3AEWAMOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4
AE 22.4 (Nov. 1995): 1020-1021 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199511%2922%3A4%3C1020%3AEWAMOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
PA 68.1 (Spring 1995): 123-124 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-851X%28199521%2968%3A1%3C123%3AEWAMOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
JAS 53.4 (Nov. 1994) 1271-1272 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28199411%2953%3A4%3C1271%3AEWAMOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E
CS 24.6 (Nov. 1995): 825 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28199511%2924%3A6%3C825%3AEWAMOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K
AJS 100.5 (Mar. 1995): 1340-1341 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28199503%29100%3A5%3C1340%3AEWAMOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
JJS 21.2 (Summer 1995): 456-460 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0095-6848%28199522%2921%3A2%3C456%3AEWAMOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
AANTH 97.4 (Dec. 1995): 785-787 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28199512%292%3A97%3A4%3C785%3ATAAOOA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
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