Hot and Bothered : Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America / Judith A. Houck.
Houck, Judith A., author.
2009
RG186
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Title
Hot and Bothered : Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America / Judith A. Houck.
Author
Houck, Judith A., author.
ISBN
9780674038813
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674038813
Published
Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (342 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674038813 doi
Call Number
RG186
Dewey Decimal Classification
618.1/75
Summary
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.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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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

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