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• catalog abstract ""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 materials, and medical publications to produce a richly detailed account of Japanese women's lives. The result offers irrefutable evidence that the experience and meanings--even the endocrinological changes--associated with female midlife are far from universal. Rather, Lock argues, they are the product of an ongoing dialectic between culture and local biologies. Japanese focus on middle-aged women as family members, and particularly as caretakers of elderly relatives. They attach relatively little importance to the end of menstruation, seeing it as a natural part of the aging process and not a diseaselike state heralding physical decline and emotional instability. Even the symptoms of midlife are different: Japanese women report few hot flashes, for example, but complain frequently of stiff shoulders. Articulate, passionate, and carefully documented, Lock's study systematically undoes the many preconceptions about aging women in two distinct cultural settings. Because it is rooted in the everyday lives of Japanese women, it also provides an excellent entree to Japanese society as a whole. Aging and menopause are subjects that have been closeted behind our myths, fears, and misconceptions. Margaret Lock's cross-cultural perspective gives us a critical new lens through which to examine our assumptions"--Publisher description.".
• catalog contributor b4764579.
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description ""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 materials, and medical publications to produce a richly detailed account of Japanese women's lives. The result offers irrefutable evidence that the experience and meanings--even the endocrinological changes--associated with female midlife are far from universal. Rather, Lock argues, they are the product of an ongoing dialectic between culture and local biologies. Japanese focus on middle-aged women as family members, and particularly as caretakers of elderly relatives. They attach relatively little importance to the end of menstruation, seeing it as a natural part of the aging process and not a diseaselike state heralding physical decline and emotional instability. Even the symptoms of midlife are different: Japanese women report few hot flashes, for example, but complain frequently of stiff shoulders. Articulate, passionate, and carefully documented, Lock's study systematically undoes the many preconceptions about aging women in two distinct cultural settings. Because it is rooted in the everyday lives of Japanese women, it also provides an excellent entree to Japanese society as a whole. Aging and menopause are subjects that have been closeted behind our myths, fears, and misconceptions. Margaret Lock's cross-cultural perspective gives us a critical new lens through which to examine our assumptions"--Publisher description.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-428) and index.".
• catalog description "Part I. Japan: maturity and konenko -- 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" -- Part 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.".
• catalog extent "xliv, 439 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0520082214 (alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "9780585131054 (electronic bk.)".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog spatial "Japan.".
• catalog spatial "North America.".
• catalog subject "1994 E-449".
• catalog subject "305.24/4 20".
• catalog subject "Aging.".
• catalog subject "Cross-Cultural Comparison Japan.".
• catalog subject "Cross-Cultural Comparison North America.".
• catalog subject "HQ1059.5.J3 L63 1993".
• catalog subject "Menopause Japan.".
• catalog subject "Menopause North America.".
• catalog subject "Menopause psychology Japan.".
• catalog subject "Menopause psychology North America.".
• catalog subject "Menopause.".
• catalog subject "Middle Aged psychology Japan.".
• catalog subject "Middle Aged psychology North America.".
• catalog subject "Middle Aged.".
• catalog subject "Middle-aged women Japan.".
• catalog subject "Middle-aged women North America.".
• catalog subject "Social Environment Japan.".
• catalog subject "Social Environment North America.".
• catalog subject "WP 580 L813e 1993".
• catalog subject "Women psychology Japan.".
• catalog subject "Women psychology North America.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part I. Japan: maturity and konenko -- 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" -- Part 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.".
• catalog title "Encounters with aging : mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America / Margaret Lock.".
• catalog type "text".