Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America

By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and representation of menopause has been profoundly influenced by biomedical developments and by changing roles for women and the changing definition of womanhood.

• | Author: Judith A. Houck
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2008
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674027404
• | ISBN-10: 067402740X