Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-313) and index.
Contents:
"Menopause is not a dangerous time:" medicine menopause, and the new woman, 1897-1937 -- "Endocrine perverts" and "Derailed menopausics:" gender transgressions and mental disturbances, 1897-1937 -- "Consider the patient as a woman and not a group of glands:" women, menopause, and the medical encounter, 1938-1962 -- "The Change emancipates women:" menopause, domesticity, and liberation in the popular literature, 1938-1962 -- "Casting an evil spell over her once happy home:" menopause as a family disease, 1938-1962 -- "Why all the fuss?:" middle-class women and the denial of the menopausal body, 1938-1962 -- Feminine forever: Robert A. Wilson and the hormonal revolution, 1963-1980 -- "At the will and whim of my hormones:" women, menopause, and the hormonal dilemma, 1963-1980 -- "What do these women want?:" feminists respond to feminine forever, 1963-1980 -- Epilogue: menopause at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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