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• Textmenopausesociocultural change

  Blood and nerves revisited: Menopause and the privatization of the body in a Newfoundland postindustrial fishery

  Ethnographic data from a longitudinal, interpretive study of women's changing social and cultural constructions of menopause in a postindustrial, Newfoundland fishing village indicate that three major changes have taken place in the way women conceptualize female, reproductive life-cycle events and processes.
• Textintensificationmenopause

  Intensification and the discourse of decline: A rhetoric of medical anthropology

• Textgendermenopause

  Menopause and the transmission of women's knowledge: African American and white women's perspectives

  Analysis of 70 interviews with African American women and Euro-American women shows that their perceptions of the intergenerational transfer of knowledge about menopause from their mothers shaped their attitudes toward menopause and the health-care technologies surrounding it.
• Textmenopause

  How Japanese women talk about hot flushes: Implications for menopause research

  Examines the complexities involved in studying physiological symptoms.
• Textmenopause

  Comparison of the menopause and midlife transition between Japanese American And European American women

  Study compared the perceptions and experiences of the midlife transition among Japanese American and European American women.