Encounters With Aging Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America

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About the author

Margaret Lock is Professor Emerita in the Departments of Social Studies of Medicine and Anthropology at McGill University. She is coeditor of Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life (California, 1993) and author of East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan (California, 1980). In 2003, she was awarded the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, of the American Anthropology Association.

Summary

This text compares North American and Japanese medical and political accounts of female middle age, together with narratives given by Japanese women, to challenge Western assumptions about menopause.

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"Encounters with Aging is a brilliant contribution not only to medical anthropology but also to gerontology and feminist theory. Others will have to evaluate the value of the work for Japanese studies, but I can't imagine it will not be enthusiastically received there as well. The book is long, as befits its complexity . . . but unfailingly literate, incisive, and passionate. It will have a wide audience, both lay and academic."

Product details

• Authors: Margaret M. Lock, Margaret Lock, Margaret M Lock
• Assisted by: Margaret M. Lock (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.05.1995
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780520201620
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20162-0
• Pages: 439
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.8 x 2.5 cm
• Subjects: Menstruation, Japan, aging, Gender Studies, Canada, Popular Culture, Feminism, Menopause, Age, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, family, HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health, North America, Anthropology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Endocrinology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, political, Women's health, Medical, Modernity, Ethnography, United States of America, Women’s health, Human biology, Age groups: adults, North America (USA and Canada), American Culture, Medical Anthropology, comparative studies, Japanese culture, maturity, family members, caregivers, american women, hot flashes, canadian women, emotional instability, female midlife, endocrinological changes, Japanese women, canadian culture, middle aged women, female middle age, Politics of Aging, aging process