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• Title:Hot and bothered : women, medicine, and menopause in modern America / Judith A. Houck.
  
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• Author/Creator:Houck, Judith A. (Judith Anne)
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WP580 .H7792 2006
    
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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WP580 .H7792 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Menopause--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
  Menopause--Treatment--United States--History--20th century.
  Middle-aged women--Health and hygiene--United States--History--20th century.
  
• Description:xii, 328 p. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0674018966
  
• Contents:1. "Menopause is not a dangerous time" : medicine, menopause, and the new woman, 1897-1937
  2. "Endocrine perverts" and "derailed menopausics" : gender transgressions and mental disturbances, 1897-1937
  3. "Consider the patient as a woman and not a group of glands" : women, menopause, and the medical encounter, 1938-1962
  4. "The change emancipates women" : menopause, domesticity, and liberation 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 dilemma, 1963-1980
  9. "What do these women want?" : feminists respond to Feminine forever, 1963-1980
  Epilogue : menopause at the turn of the twenty-first century.