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"Menopause is not a dangerous time:" medicine menopause, and the new woman, 1897-1937
"Endocrine perverts" and "Derailed menopausics:" gender transgressions and mental disturbances, 1897-1937
"Consider the patient as a woman and not a group of glands:" women, menopause, and the medical encounter, 1938-1962
"The Change emancipates women:" menopause, domesticity, and liberation in the popular literature, 1938-1962
"Casting an evil spell over her once happy home:" menopause as a family disease, 1938-1962
"Why all the fuss?:" middle-class women and the denial of the menopausal body, 1938-1962
Feminine forever: Robert A. Wilson and the hormonal revolution, 1963-1980
"At the will and whim of my hormones:" women, menopause, and the hormonal dilemma, 1963-1980
"What do these women want?:" feminists respond to feminine forever, 1963-1980
Epilogue: menopause at the turn of the twenty-first century.
"Endocrine perverts" and "Derailed menopausics:" gender transgressions and mental disturbances, 1897-1937
"Consider the patient as a woman and not a group of glands:" women, menopause, and the medical encounter, 1938-1962
"The Change emancipates women:" menopause, domesticity, and liberation in the popular literature, 1938-1962
"Casting an evil spell over her once happy home:" menopause as a family disease, 1938-1962
"Why all the fuss?:" middle-class women and the denial of the menopausal body, 1938-1962
Feminine forever: Robert A. Wilson and the hormonal revolution, 1963-1980
"At the will and whim of my hormones:" women, menopause, and the hormonal dilemma, 1963-1980
"What do these women want?:" feminists respond to feminine forever, 1963-1980
Epilogue: menopause at the turn of the twenty-first century.