The Meanings of Menopause: Historical, Medical, and Cultural Perspectives

by Ruth Formanek

Book Overview

In this scholarly compilation of a major event in the life of every woman, editor Ruth Formanek has adopted an avowedly multidisciplinary mandate: to illuminate menopause as both an event and a stage of life by gathering together a variety of discipline-specific meanings and research perspectives. The result is an admirably comprehensive study that not only charts the premodern meanings of menopause, but proceeds to examine menopause from current...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881630802
• ISBN13: 9780881630800
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"