Blending rhetorical analysis, qualitative research, and lived experience, Living Menopause: Rhetorics, Tensions, and Futures explores the forces that have long framed menopause as a problem to solve, a decline to fear, and a market to exploit. Against this backdrop, the authors craft expansive, agency-affirming futures for living with/and/through menopause.
Across six chapters, the authors trace how menopause circulates through medical research, workplace expectations, caregiving pressures, health applications, and popular media. They show how decades of medicalization, beauty culture, and binary thinking through various "menobooms" have constrained what menopause can mean-and what women are allowed to feel, choose, or imagine during this transition.
Living Menopause invites scholars and practitioners to join a conversation already underway-one that challenges stigma, expands agency, and opens new futures for how we understand and experience menopause. Ultimately, this book encourages readers to continue to critique and think outside current menopause discourse en route to imagining, constructing, and demanding new stories around the menopause experience.
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Living Menopause
Rhetorics, Tensions, and Futures
- 201 pages
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Living Menopause
Rhetorics, Tensions, and Futures
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Living With/And/Through Menopause
- Chapter 1: My Body/My Mother’s Body: Caregiving During Menopause
- Chapter 2: The Women’s Health Initiative Study: A Rhetorical History
- Chapter 3: The Grappling Is Happening: The Multiple Menopause Discourses of Television
- Chapter 4: “I Had NO Idea”: Rhetorics of Choice and the Effects of Surgical Menopause
- Chapter 5: Hushed Rhetorics and Menopausal Teachers: “It’s Super Taboo, Let’s Be Honest”1
- Chapter 6: “Capitalism Has Gotten Its Hooks into Menopause and Wants to Shake It Until Money Falls Out”: Rhetorical Consequences of Monetizing Menopause
- Conclusion: The Future of Menopause
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- About The Authors
- Index
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Yes, you can access Living Menopause by Lori Beth de Hertogh,Ann E. Green,Cristina Hanganu-Bresch,Laura R. Micciche,Cathryn Molloy,Bryna Siegel Finer,Jamie White-Farnham in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Rhetoric. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.