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Encounters with aging: mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America
Margaret M Lock
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Prologue: Scientific Discourse and Aging Women (page xiv)
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PART I JAPAN: MATURITY AND KŌNENKI (page 1)
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1 The The Turn of Life—Unstable Meanings (page 3)
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2 Probabilities and Kōnenki (page 31)
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3 Resignation, Resistance, Satisfaction—Narratives of Maturity (page 46)
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4 The Pathology of Modernity (page 78)
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5 Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Family (page 107)
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6 Illusion of Indolence—Ideology and Partial Truths (page 135)
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7 Odd Women Out (page 171)
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8 Controlled Selves and Tempered Bodies (page 202)
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9 Peering Behind the Platitudes—Rituals of Resistance (page 233)
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10 The Doctoring of Kōnenki (page 256)
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"Invisible Messengers" (page 299)
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PART II FROM DODGING TIME TO DEFICIENCY DISEASE (page 301)
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11 The Making of Menopause (page 303)
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12 Against Nature—Menopause as Herald of Decay (page 330)
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"An Act of Freedom" (page 368)
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Epilogue: The Politics of Aging—Flashes of Immortality (page 370)
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Notes (page 389)
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Bibliography (page 401)
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Index (page 429)
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Published: c1993
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520201620 (paper)