| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 466 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Prologue : The Grandmother of Us All -- Evolution. Why Menopause? ; "Thank You, Grandma, for Human Nature" : The Grandmother Hypothesis ; Putting the "Men" in Menopause : Male-Centered Theories of Human Evolution ; Foragers Today : Hunting, Sharing, and Super-Uncles -- History. Our Long Stone Age Past : How Grandmothers (Maybe) Conquered the World ; The Age of Farmers : Patriarchy, Property, and Fertility Control ; Reproduction and Non-Reproduction in Some Agrarian Societies ; The Modern World -- Culture. Women's Hell : Menopause and Modern Medicine ; What Are You Talking About? Menopause in Traditional Societies ; Symptoms ; A Cultural Syndrome? -- Epilogue : Good-Bye to All That |
| Summary |
For most of human history, people had no word for menopause and did not view it as a medical condition. Rather, in traditional foraging and agrarian societies, it was a transition to another important life stage. This book draws on historical, scientific, and cultural research to reveal how our perceptions of menopause developed from prehistory to the twenty-first century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 18, 2019) |
| Subject |
Menopause -- History
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Menopause
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780691185644 |
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0691185646 |
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