- Bib ID:
- 70005
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lock, Margaret M
- Description:
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993
- xliv, 440 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0520082214 (alkaline paper)
- Full contents:
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- Prologue: Scientific Discourse and Aging Women
- Pt. I. Japan: Maturity and Konenki. 1. The Turn of Life -Unstable Meanings. 2. Probabilities and Konenki. 3. Resignation, Resistance, Satisfaction - Narratives of Maturity. 4. The Pathology of Modernity. 5. Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Family. 6. Illusion of Indolence - Ideology and Partial Truths. 7. Odd Women Out. 8. Controlled Selves and Tempered Bodies. 9. Peering Behind the Platitudes - Rituals of Resistance. 10. The Doctoring of Konenki
- "Invisible Messengers"
- Pt. II. From Dodging Time to Deficiency Disease. 11. The Making of Menopause. 12. Against Nature -Menopause as Herald of Decay
- "An Act of Freedom"
- Epilogue: The Politics of Aging - Flashes of Immortality.
- Notes:
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- Errata slip inserted.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-428) and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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