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Author:   Margaret M. Lock
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780520201620

ISBN 10:   0520201620
Pages:   439
Publication Date:   30 May 1995
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: Scientific Discourse and Aging Women PART 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 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 Notes Bibliography Index

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Lock's focus on menopause as a point of departure for discussing nature/culture dichotomies makes for a brilliant addition to the growing literature on the anthropology of the human body. -- Library Journal

Author Information

Margaret Lock is Professor in the Departments of Social Studies of Medicine and Anthropology at McGill University. She is coeditor of Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life (California, 1993) and author of East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan (California, 1980). In 2003, she was awarded the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, of the American Anthropology Association.

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