Hot and bothered [[electronic resource] ] : women, medicine, and menopause in modern America / / Judith A. Houck

• Autore: Houck Judith A (Judith Anne)
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Disciplina: 618.1/75
• Soggetto topico: Menopause - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century; Menopause - Treatment - United States - History - 20th century; Middle-aged women - Health and hygiene - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-313) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Menopause Is Not a Dangerous Time" -- 2. "Endocrine Perverts" and "Derailed Menopausics" -- 3. "Consider the Patient as a Woman and Not a Group of Glands" -- 4. "The Change Emancipates Women" -- 5. "Casting an Evil Spell over Her Once Happy Home" -- 6. "Why All the Fuss?" -- 7. Feminine Forever -- 8. "At the Will and Whim of My Hormones" -- 9. "What Do These Women Want?" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How did menopause change from being a natural (and often welcome) end to a woman's childbearing years to a deficiency disease in need of medical and pharmacological intervention? 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Hot and bothered
• ISBN: 0-674-03881-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455122803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II