Title Encounters with aging : mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America / Margaret Lock.

Publication Info.	London : University of California Press, [1993]
	©1993

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Description	1 online resource (xliv, 439 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-428) and index.
Summary	Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a detailed account of Japanese women's lives.
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Subject	Middle-aged women -- Japan.
	Middle-aged women.
	Japan.
	Middle-aged women -- North America.
	North America.
	Menopause -- Japan.
	Menopause.
	Menopause -- North America.
Indexed Term	Women Menopause
	Japan
	North America
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Lock, Margaret M. Encounters with aging. London : University of California Press, ©1993 0520201620 (OCoLC)32742130
ISBN	9780520916623 (electronic book)
	052091662X (electronic book)
	0585131058 (electronic book)
	9780585131054 (electronic book)
	9780520201620
	0520201620
	0520201620