TY - BOOK ID - 73500341 TI - Encounters with aging : mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America PY - SN - 0520082214 PB - Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Middle aged women KW - Japan KW - North America KW - Menopause KW - Middle-aged women KW - Older women (Middle-aged women) KW - Middle-aged persons KW - Women KW - Change of life in women KW - Female change of life KW - Female climacteric KW - Climacteric UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73500341 AB - 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. ER -