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Musings on Perimenopause and Menopause

Identity, Experience, Transition.

Heather Dillaway, Laura Wershle (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2021
Demeter Press (Verlag)
978-1-77258-285-7 (ISBN)

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A woman muses about buying lovely new panties; another journeys inward and outward to redefine her life, a blogger offers information, support, and community to perimenopausal women; researchers uncover myths and misconceptions about migrant and refugee women’s experiences of menopause; a gerontology scholar extrapolates for menopause the meanings of cultural representations of childbirth; a sociologist and intersex advocate challenges her medically constructed menopause; young women’s stories inform an inquiry into the health and social repercussions of primary ovarian insufficiency—all in a collection of research papers and personal narratives that moves far beyond the idea of menopause as a mere biological marker. While biomedical and feminist researchers agree that menopause is a time of transition and border crossing, they offer diverse viewpoints about whether perimenopause and menopause signal deficiency and burden, or growth and freedom, or both. So too, contributors to this collection—influenced by factors of age, cultural background, societal context, and physical and psychological experience—vary significantly in their perspectives of this process. Research, analysis, narrative, poetry, and art intermingle to create a multi-textured montage that challenges stereotypes, probes relationships, and defies categorization. Musings on Perimenopause and Menopause: Identity, Experience, Transition, provides insight into how women think about and experience the transition to menopause in contemporary times.

Heather Dillaway is a professor of sociology, interim chair of public health, and associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Her research focuses on women's perimenopause and menopause experiences, and is published in a range of feminist journals including Gender & Society; Sex Roles; Journal of Women & Aging; Healthcare for Women International; Women and Health; Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal; and Feminist Formations. Dillaway’s work on this reproductive transition, as well as her research into the reproductive health experiences of women with physical disabilities, seeks to highlight women’s everyday voices and lived experiences. Laura Wershler discovered a love for editing the words of other while earning a certificate in journalism (2011) from Mount Royal University. She brings to her editing and writing decades of experience as a sexual and reproductive health advocate, commentator, and educator. Her work has appeared in various newspapers, journals, online media, and the anthology Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada (2016). Two personal essays about women’s aging will appear in other anthologies published in 2021. One is from her memoir-in-progress about her role as advocate and companion to her mother in deep old age.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Laura Wershler and Heather Dillaway
1. MENO-TYPICAL
The Anatomy of a Hot Flash
Beth Osnes
“Gone Girl:” The Menopause in Popular Culture
Mary Jane Lupton
Myths and Misconceptions: Migrant and Refugee Women’s Constructions and Experiences of Menopause
Jane Ussher, Alexandra Hawkey, and Janette Perz
The SWAN Study: Race, Gender, Identity, and Menopause
Mindy Fried
Slouching Toward Menopause
Joanne Gilbert
2. OUT OF STEP
Before Your Time: When Menopause Comes Too Soon
Evelina W. Sterling, Christine Eads, Starr Vuchetich, and Catherine M. Gordon
Shadow Story
Yolanda Kauffman
Just Before Menopause
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
Patches Not Pads: An Intersex Experience with Post-Surgical (Pseudo) Menopause
Georgiann Davis and Koyel Khan
3. BLOOD RELATIONS
Waiting for Seventeen Days
Heather Dillaway
“Dear Magnolia…..Nobody Really Understands….What Can I Do?”: Reflections on a Perimenopausal Blog as Social Support
Gillian Anderson
Finding Bedrock
Marie Maccagno
Menopause Claimed
Laura Wershler
4. UNLEASHED
Harsh Blessings: On Finding Poetry at Fifty
Magali Roy-Féquière
Uninhabitable Lives: Narrative Strategies of Menopause Experience in Notes on a Scandal and Carol
Sylvie Teillay-Gambaudo
Perimenopause: The Body, Mind, and Spirit in Transition
Victoria Team
From the Crowning to the Crone: Extrapolating Judy Chicago’s Birth Project to Older Women Anne Barrett
All New Panties
Cayo Gamber
Contributor Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2021
Verlagsort	ON
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-77258-285-9 / 1772582859
ISBN-13	978-1-77258-285-7 / 9781772582857
Zustand	Neuware