Abstract

Introduction 1. Hold Oneself Well in Hand: Medicine, Menopause, and the New Woman 2. Endocrine Perverts and Derailed Menopausics: Gender Transgressions and Mental Disorders, 1897-1937 3. Consider the Patent as a Woman and Not a Groups of Gland: Women, Menopause, and the Medical Encounter, 1938-1962 4. Domesticity and Liberation: Menopause in the Popular Literature, 1938-1962 5. Casting an Evil Spell over Her Once Happy Home: Menopause as a Family Disease, 1938-1962 6. Why All the Fuss? Middle-Class Women and the Denial of the Menopausal Body, 1938-1962 7. Feminine Forever: Robert A. Wilson and the Hormonal Revolution, 1963-1980 8. At the Will and Whim of My Hormones: Women, Menopause, and the Hormonal Imperative 9. What Do These Women Want? Feminist Responses to Feminine Forever Epilogue. Aging Supermodels and Inner Crones: Menopause at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Notes Index

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