Encounters with aging [[electronic resource] ] : mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America / / Margaret Lock

• Autore: Lock Margaret M
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xliv, 439 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 305.24/4
• Soggetto topico: Middle-aged women - Japan; Middle-aged women - North America; Menopause - Japan; Menopause - North America; Adult; Sociology; Climacteric; Culture; Persons; Social Sciences; Age Groups; Reproductive Physiological Phenomena; Anthropology, Cultural; Sexual Development; Named Groups; Reproductive Physiological Processes; Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena; Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena; Anthropology; Phenomena and Processes; Menopause; Social Environment; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Women; Middle Aged
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-428) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Immortality
• Sommario/riassunto: Lock 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Encounters with aging
• ISBN: 0-520-91662-X; 0-585-13105-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248110303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.