Blood and Nerves
An Ethnographic Focus on Menopause
- Publisher
- ISER Books
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1983
- Category
- Physical
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919666412
- Publish Date
- Jan 1983
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
What is universal and presumably physiological in women's experience of menopause? What is variable and cultural? Can status change vs. status continuity in middle age affect or mediate menopausal symptoms? How does one go about conducting an ethnography of menopause? Davis explores these questions in a southwest Newfoundland fishing village.
The book will be of interest to specialists in women's studies and aging, to public health and medical practitioners, as well as to the general reader. Included is a review of medical and social science literature on menopause.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Dona Davis teaches in the Department of Social Behavior at the University of South Dakota.