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Author: Marcia Lawrence
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780836235920
Category : Estrogen
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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"One woman's story of breakdown and recovery, through hormone therapy, and what it means for all women."--Jacket.

Author: Joni Labbe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997179736
Category : Menopause
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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"Your thyroid is screaming, your adrenals are wrecked, you can't remember where you put your keys, and the only thing in your closet that fits is your shoes. But your doctor says you're FINE... Menopause sucks! But it doesn't have to. You Are Not Lazy, Crazy, Or Finished! The transition into menopause can take ten or more years, and be a wildly unpleasant ride at times. Challenging? Yes. But, girlfriends, don't let mid-life mooch your mojo. Instead, embrace this time as a wake-up call to win back your health and passion for life. Dr. Labbe's 9-step program offers powerful, science-based nutritional therapy and holistic lifestyle solutions to ease the mid-life transition, reclaim your mojo, and restore yourself to vibrant health." -- Amazon.com.

Author: Pat Ross
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684842270
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Offers a series of humorous ways to identify the onset of menopause, including "Your biological clock is beyond repair," "Your little laugh lines are no longer funny," and "You get another cat"

Author: Patricia J. Richter
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9780471346852
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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A Complete and Comforting Guide on What Your Mother Never Told You About Menopause. Going beyond the television talk shows and tabloids, here's real help through the maze of information women are hit with as they enter midlife--somewhere between ages 35 and 60. Told from the point of view of a friend who's been there, Midlife, Madness, or Menopause provides simple, practical guidelines as to what you might expect and what you can do to help yourself as your body begins to change. Written by a woman who has gone through menopause and corroborated by a distinguished physician and woman's health advocate, this book explores the changes women face around the time of menopause--drawing on questions and concerns gathered from hundreds of women who have experienced it. This indispensable book will give you: * Up-to-the-minute guidelines on hormone replacement therapy. * Down-to-earth personal stories. * Clear explanations for the changes taking place in your body. * The latest facts on medical procedures, such as hysterectomy, dilation and curettage, endometrial ablation, and bladder reconstruction. * Tools to detect more than 70 common signs of hormonal change. * The latest information on alternative therapy as well as time-honored traditional treatments. Designed to dispel fears and debunk myths, this guide is filled with humorous "Moments of Madness" and a positive, personal approach for managing your own health--mental and physical.

Author: Claire L. Warga
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684854791
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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In a unique guide, a neuropsychologist offers insight into the mental disruptions that often accompany the onset of menopause, including lapses in memory; presents selfscreening tools; and identifies treatment alternatives, from estrogen therapy to dietary changes. Reprint.

Author: ALISON M. DOWNHAM MOORE
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192842919
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 501

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Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century. The concept of menopause was invented by French male medical students in the aftermath of the French Revolution, becoming an important pedagogic topic and a common theme of doctors' professional identities in postrevolutionary biomedicine. Older women were identified as an important patient cohort for the expanding medicalisation of French society and were advised to entrust themselves to the hygienic care of doctors in managing the whole era of life from around and after the final cessation of menses. However, menopause owed much of its conceptual weft to earlier themes of women as the sicker sex, of vitalist crisis, of the vapours, and of astrological climacteric years. This is the first comprehensive study of the origins of the medical concept of menopause, richly contextualising its role in nineteenth-century French medicine and revealing the complex threads of meaning that informed its invention. It tells a complex story of how women's ageing featured in the demographic revolution in modern science, in the denigration of folk medicine, in the unique French field of hygiène, and in the fixation on women in the emergence of modern psychiatry. It reveals the nineteenth-century French origins of the still-current medical and alternative-health approaches to women's ageing as something to be managed through gynaecological surgery, hormonal replacement, and lifestyle intervention.

Author: Dr Jessica Taylor
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1472135520
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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The new book from the bestselling author of Why Women Are Blamed for Everything Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women have long been pathologized, locked up and medicated for not conforming to whichever norms or stereotypes are expected of them in that time and space. Sexy But Psycho is a challenging and uncomfortable book which seeks to explore the way professionals and society at large pathologize and sexualise women and girls. Utilising decades of research, real case studies and new data from her own work, Dr Taylor's book will critically analyse the way we label women with personality disorders. Why are women and girls pathologized for being angry about oppression and abuse? How have so many women been duped into believing that they are mentally ill, for having normal and natural reactions to their experiences? Sexy But Psycho argues that there is a specific purpose to convincing women and girls that they are mentally ill, as the world avoids addressing violence against women and their centuries of ignored trauma.

Author: Clare Anderson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319967401
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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This book presents in-depth investigation of the language used about women and ageing in public discourse, and compares this with the language used by women to express their personal, lived experience of ageing. It takes a linguistic approach to identify how messages contained in public discourse influence how individual women evaluate their own ageing, and particularly their ageing appearance. It begins by establishing the wider cultural context that produces prevailing attitudes to women, before turning to an analysis of representations of the ageing female body in beauty and cosmetic advertising and the lifestyle media. The focus then moves to a detailed investigation of women’s own perceptions of the process of ageing and of their ageing appearance as revealed through their personal narratives. The final chapters challenge dominant attitudes to women and ageing by presenting two case studies of women who for different reasons and in different ways refuse to conform to cultural expectations. This work provides a platform for further academic research in the fields of linguistics, gerontology, gender and media studies; as well as offering meaningful applications in the wider domains of business and advertising.

Author: Sarah E. Maier
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030465829
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and madhouses as if many Victorians were “mad.” Such portraits demand a “rediagnosing” of mental illness that was often reduced to only female hysteria or a general malaise in nineteenth-century renditions. This collection of essays explores questions of neo-Victorian representations of moral insanity, mental illness, disturbed psyches or non-normative imaginings as well as considers the important issues of legal righteousness, social responsibility or methods of restraint and corrupt incarcerations. The chapters investigate the self-conscious re-visions, legacies and lessons of nineteenth-century discourses of madness and/or those persons presumed mad rediagnosed by present-day (neo-Victorian) representations informed by post-nineteenth-century psychological insights.

Author: Heather Dillaway
Publisher: Demeter Press
ISBN: 1772583243
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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A woman muses about buying lovely new panties; another sets out on the trip of a lifetime; a blogger offers information, support, and community to perimenopausal women; researchers uncover myths and misconceptions about migrant and refugee women's experiences of menopause; a gerontology scholar extrapolates for menopause the meanings of cultural representations of childbirth; a sociologist and intersex advocate challenges her medically constructed menopause; young women's stories inform an inquiry into the health and social repercussions of primary ovarian insufficiency—all in a collection of research papers and personal narratives that moves far beyond the idea of menopause as a mere biological marker. While biomedical and feminist researchers agree that menopause is a time of transition and border crossing, they offer diverse viewpoints about whether perimenopause and menopause signal deficiency and burden, or growth and freedom, or both. So too, contributors to this collection—influenced by factors of age, cultural background, societal context, and physical and psychological experience—vary significantly in their perspectives of this process. Research, analysis, narrative, poetry, and art intermingle to create a multi-textured montage that challenges stereotypes, probes relationships, and defies categorization. Musings on Perimenopause and Menopause: Identity, Experience, Transition provides insight into how women think about and experience the transition to menopause in contemporary times.