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

Lock, Margaret M.

Year: c1993.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

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

Author:

Lock, Margaret M

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Encounters with aging : mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America Margaret Lock.
Lock, Margaret M
London: University of California Press, c1993.

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Subject Headings:

• Middle-aged women -- Japan
• Menopause -- Japan
• Menopause -- North America
• Middle-aged women -- North America

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