Hot and Bothered : : Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America / / 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 r...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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