Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America
Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America By Judith A. Houck
Publisher: Harvard University Press 2006 | 300 Pages | ISBN: 0674018966 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Harvard University Press 2006 | 300 Pages | ISBN: 0674018966 | PDF | 1 MB
Drawing on medical literature, the popular press, and women's accounts from the 1890s to the 1980s, this beautifully written book examines menopause as both cultural construct and physiological transition. Judith Houck provides a nuanced discussion of menopause in relation to medical theory, clinical practice, women's demands, and husbands' responses. She shows that women were not victims of the medical profession but acted in ways they thought to be in their interests. In turn, women's own sense of their menopausal experience mattered in doctors' responses, shaping medical diagnosis and treatment. Hot and Bothered makes an important contribution to women's history, medical history, the history of the body, and the history of aging.