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University of California Pre, 1994. Hardcover. Good/Good. Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and p olitical accounts of female middle age to challenge… Plus…

University of California Pre, 1994. Hardcover. Good/Good. Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and p olitical accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions abo ut menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a richly det ailed account of Japanese women's lives. The result offers irrefutable evid ence that the experience and meanings-even the endocrinological changes-ass ociated with female midlife are far from universal. Rather, Lock argues, th ey are the product of an ongoing dialectic between culture and local biolog ies. Japanese focus on middle-aged women as family members, and particularly as caretakers of elderly relatives. They attach relatively little importance t o the end of menstruation, seeing it as a natural part of the aging process and not a diseaselike state heralding physical decline and emotional insta bility. Even the symptoms of midlife are different: Japanese women report f ew hot flashes, for example, but complain frequently of stiff shoulders. Articulate, passionate, and carefully documented, Lock's study systematical ly undoes the many preconceptions about aging women in two distinct cultura l settings. Because it is rooted in the everyday lives of Japanese women, i t also provides an excellent entree to Japanese society as a whole. Aging and menopause are subjects that have been closeted behind our myths, fears, and misconceptions. Margaret Lock's cross-cultural perspective gives us a critical new lens through which to examine our assumptions. Editorial Reviews From Library Journal While the end of menstruation is a biologi., University of California Pre, 1994, 2019. Softcover. New. Lang: - eng, Pages 62. Reprinted in 104 with the help of original edition published long back [1910]. This book is Printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover {HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE}, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us.We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Any type of Customisation is possible). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions., 2019, University of Michigan Press, 1992-09-01. Paperback. Good., University of Michigan Press, 1992-09-01<

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