Hot and Bothered : : Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America / / Judith A Houck.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Houck, Judith A,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. "Menopause Is Not a Dangerous Time" --; 2. "Endocrine Perverts" and "Derailed Menopausics" --; 3. "Consider the Patient as a Woman and Not a Group of Glands" --; 4. "The Change Emancipates Women" --; 5. "Casting an Evil Spell over Her Once Happy Home" --; 6. "Why All the Fuss?" --; 7. Feminine Forever --; 8. "At the Will and Whim of My Hormones" --; 9. "What Do These Women Want?" --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674038813; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674038813
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Judith A Houck.

How did menopause change from being a natural (and often welcome) end to a woman's childbearing years to a deficiency disease in need of medical and pharmacological intervention? By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and representation of menopause has been profoundly influenced by biomedical developments and by changing roles for women and the changing definition of womanhood.