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The uterine health companion : a holistic guide to lifelong wellness
\"For women interested in a holistic approach to maintaining optimal uterine health and addressing specific health disorders of the uterus, from menarche to menopause and beyond\"--Provided by publisher.
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Menopause and the transmission of women's knowledge: African American and White women's perspectives
Recent menopause literature does not sufficiently explore women's attitudes on the transmission of knowledge about menopause from sources other than biomedical providers. Analysis of 70 interviews with African American and Euro-American women shows that their perceptions of the intergenerational transfer of knowledge about menopause from their mothers shaped their attitudes toward menopause and the health-care technologies surrounding it. African American women who grew up in the segregated South frequently expressed that their mothers provided them with the knowledge and power to negotiate difficulties during the menopausal process, while many middle-class Euro-American women expressed that their mothers did not. Drawing on literature that examines the effects of race, class, and kinship on mother/daughter relationships, this article explores the reasons for this divergence. Reprinted by permission of the American Anthropological Association and the University of California Press
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Menopause and the Transmission of Women's Knowledge: African American and White Women's Perspectives
Recent menopause literature does not sufficiently explore women's attitudes on the transmission of knowledge about menopause from sources other than biomedical providers. Analysis of 70 interviews with African American and Euro-American women shows that their perceptions of the intergenerational transfer of knowledge about menopause from their mothers shaped their attitudes toward menopause and the health-care technologies surrounding it. African American women who grew up in the segregated South frequently expressed that their mothers provided them with the knowledge and power to negotiate difficulties during the menopausal process, while many middle-class Euro-American women expressed that their mothers did not. Drawing on literature that examines the effects of race, class, and kinship on mother/daughter relationships, this article explores the reasons for this divergence.
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Race, class and the change: A cultural analysis of American women's and biomedical care providers' conceptualizations of menopause
This dissertation explores African American and Euro-American women's and health care providers' conceptualizations of menopause. In it, I argue that American women consider menopause a transformational process that leads to increased self awareness and changes in embodiment, while American health care providers frame menopause as a diseased state. It examines African American and Euro-American women's attitudes about hormone replacement therapy, describing how women's perceptions of the transfer of knowledge about menopause from their mothers influence their choices regarding health care technologies. I also investigate the practice approaches of gynecology and family medicine providers I observed working with menopausal women, describing how these approaches shape provider practices, medicalization and provider-patient interactions. In examining interactions between female patients and health care providers, I discuss how the concepts of risk, individual choice, and power affect patient-provider encounters. I describe how providers and patients negotiate these concepts in diverse clinical settings with patients from different race and class backgrounds. In my conclusion, I suggest how these findings could improve doctor-patient relations as well as clinical guidelines regarding medical practice in relation to menopause.
Dissertation
Writing the Plural: Sexual Fantasies
[...] we briefly revisited the topic, when we gathered at Eve's house for a meeting in 1987, by imagining queer encounters between such TV characters as Lucy and Ethel, or Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, thereby adding our voices to a long underground history of writing same-sex fantasies about figures in popular culture. Every horizon is crowded with nameless creatures gesturing eagerly for recognition, while unimagined sciences blossom forth in their movements and habits and relations, and undiscovered fates hang just out of sight among cloud formations whose shapes do not recall anything on this earth. The minute I refuse to write a sexual fantasy - the instant I feel the initial surges of inarticulate avoidance that will eventually take certain and final shape as the refusal to write a sexual fantasy - the world springs into life, into a minutely visible throng of lives that call to me in a diapason more sultry and various than any single, moonlit tango by the solitary beach of sex.
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