04825nam 2201225 a 450 99624811030331620201022212012.00-520-91662-X0-585-13105-8(CKB)111004366715194(dli)HEB04079(SSID)ssj0000146490(PQKBManifestationID)12020164(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000146490(PQKBWorkID)10186334(PQKB)10273530(SSID)ssj0000084118(PQKBManifestationID)12007276(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084118(PQKBWorkID)10168168(PQKB)11171944(StDuBDS)EDZ0000083845(EXLCZ)9911100436671519420010301d1993 uh 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrEncounters with aging[electronic resource] mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America /Margaret LockBerkeley, Calif. ;London University of California Press19931 online resource (xliv, 439 p. )ill. ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-08221-4 0-520-20162-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-428) and index.Prologue: Scientific Discourse and Aging Women --PART I JAPAN: MATURITY AND KŌNENKI --1. The The Turn of Life—Unstable Meanings --2. Probabilities and Kōnenki --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 Kōnenki --"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 ImmortalityLock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a detailed account of Japanese women's lives.ACLS Humanities E-Book.Middle-aged womenJapanMiddle-aged womenNorth AmericaMenopauseJapanMenopauseNorth AmericaMiddle-aged womenJapanMiddle-aged womenNorth AmericaMenopauseJapanMenopauseNorth AmericaAdultSociologyClimactericCulturePersonsSocial SciencesAge GroupsReproductive Physiological PhenomenaAnthropology, CulturalSexual DevelopmentNamed GroupsReproductive Physiological ProcessesAnthropology, Education, Sociology and Social PhenomenaReproductive and Urinary Physiological PhenomenaAnthropologyPhenomena and ProcessesMenopauseSocial EnvironmentCross-Cultural ComparisonWomenMiddle AgedMiddle-aged womenMiddle-aged womenMenopauseMenopauseMiddle-aged womenMiddle-aged womenMenopauseMenopauseAdultSociologyClimactericCulturePersonsSocial SciencesAge GroupsReproductive Physiological PhenomenaAnthropology, CulturalSexual DevelopmentNamed GroupsReproductive Physiological ProcessesAnthropology, Education, Sociology and Social PhenomenaReproductive and Urinary Physiological PhenomenaAnthropologyPhenomena and ProcessesMenopauseSocial EnvironmentCross-Cultural ComparisonWomenMiddle Aged305.24/4Lock Margaret M1009391American Council of Learned Societies.MiUBOOK996248110303316Encounters with aging2330843UNISA