TY - GEN AB - 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. AU - Houck, Judith A., CN - RG186 DO - 10.4159/9780674038813 DO - doi ID - 1478482 JF - HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) JF - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 KW - Menopause KW - Menopause KW - Middle-aged women KW - MEDICAL / History LA - eng LA - In English. LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674038813 N2 - 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. SN - 9780674038813 T1 - Hot and Bothered :Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America / TI - Hot and Bothered :Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674038813 ER -