Encounters with Aging
Subtitle: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 30, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780520201620
Subjects: Adults; Anthropology; Medical anthropology; Women's health; Fiction; Consumer Health; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Japan; North America; Anthropology - General; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
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?"