ABSTRACT
Reinterpreting Menopause brings together a number of reflections from a broad range of areas including feminism, cultural studies, clinical medicine, sociology, philosophy and political science and includes the voices and experiences of menopausal women themselves. In an innovative series of essays, current thinking about medicine, society and the body is critically examined. Particular attention is given to the medical representations of menopause, biology and aging, the history of medical approaches to women and the tensions between bio-medical models and other explanations of menopause.
Contributors include: E. Ann Kaplan, Emily Martin, Mia Campioni, Fiona Mackie, Roe Sybylla, Wendy Rogers, Kwok Lei Leng, Margaret Morganroth Gullette and Robyn Gardner.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |14 pages
Introduction
part |60 pages
Menopausal Bodies
chapter 2|15 pages
The Left Hand of the Goddess
part |81 pages
Politics of the Symbolic
chapter 6|27 pages
Resisting Pathologies of Age and Race
part |65 pages
Discursive Strategies
chapter 9|24 pages
Menopause as Magic Marker
part |50 pages
Metaphors and Mutations