Encounters with Aging
Subtitle: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 20, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780520082212
Subjects: Adults; Anthropology; Women's studies; Sociology - General; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Menopause; Fiction; Diet / Health / Fitness; North America; Japan; Anthropology - General; General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology; Middle aged women; Middle-aged women
First sentence: In Osaka in 1984 the organizer of a public lecture about menopause started out the session by asking the entirely female audience, "What do you think of when you hear the word konenki?"