Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America by Margaret M. Lock

Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America

Margaret M. Lock

440 pages • first pub 1995 (view editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materi...

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