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

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

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 wo...

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Main Author: Lock, Margaret M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : University of California Press, ©1993.
Subjects:
Middle-aged women > Japan.
Middle-aged women > North America.
Menopause > Japan.
Menopause > North America.
Adulthood.
Sociology.
Climacteric.
Culture.
Social sciences.
Ethnology.
Anthropology.
Menopause.
Social ecology.
Cross-cultural studies.
Women.
Middle age.
sociology.
culture note.
social sciences.
anthropology.
human ecology.
middle age (life stage)
women (female humans)
culture (concept)
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > General.
Women
Sociology
Social sciences
Social ecology
Middle age
Ethnology
Culture
Cross-cultural studies
Climacteric
Anthropology
Adulthood
Menopause
Middle-aged women
Japan
North America
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